Pls Help me? I am new to BASIC

[mathuna]

I want to get the location of \ character using MATCH. But match already contains \ as escape character.

Is it possible to get the location of \?

Can u help me?

e.g) I want to get the location of \ in the following path

c:\java\lib


Regards,
Nalini

[KiZ]

Look up the INSTR command. It will tell you the first occourence of a specified character in a string, starting from a specified position.
Here is a link to the command

[Sterling Christensen]

Do you mean QBASIC or BASIC?

Maybe he's talking about some weird dialect of BASIC that has a MATCH function.

[KiZ]

Yep, Are you using Qbasic, mate? Because Ive never heard of a MATCH command for Qbasic before... is this Basic or GWBasic? of Firstbasic... or Powerbasic... or umm.. to many to comprehend..=P

[Agamemnus]

What is the evil J word doing there??

[KiZ]

Um... think fast.... its **Coffee!!!** Yea.... thats it. He has a folder in his HDD devoted to coffee. Yup..

...

*Psst... you owe me one, mathuna...*

[Agamemnus]

Hm......

Ok then.

*lowers nuklear weapon*..

[KiZ]

:rotfl:

*thinks aga should look "nuklear" up in dictionary* :lol:

[TheBigBasicQ]

Here you go:

Location% = INSTR("c:\java\blah", "\")

This command will give only the first occurance of the "\" character =P.

[KiZ]

TBBQ: he already has been given the answer?? That is just a useless post.