Questions about BINARY and color

[Jotz]

1. When writing into a binary file, how do I make each entry on a seperate line when I view it in notepad? Example:

Code:

variable$ = "A"
elbairav$ = "Z"

PUT #1, 1, variable$
PUT #1, 2, elbairav$

Then it appears like this:

AZ

But I want it to appear like this:

A
Z

How do I do so?

2. Is there a way to detect the color of a text character?

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[adosorken]

Place a CRLF sequence into the file where you want the line broken. CR is Chr$(13) and LF is Chr$(10).

[ak00ma]

If you mean the color of a text-character on the screen, this might help: http://qbasicnews.com/qboho/qckadvr.screenf.shtml

[Jotz]

Place a CRLF sequence into the file where you want the line broken. CR is Chr$(13) and LF is Chr$(10).

Can you explain that a little but furthur? I tried putting:

PUT #1, , CRLF

after another PUT but all it did was add a few spaces. And thanks ak00ma that works great.

[DrV]

use something like this before using CRLF:

Code:

dim shared CRLF as string
CRLF = chr$(13) + chr$(10)

[Spotted Cheetah]

CRLF := Carriage Return, Line feed. These are two special characters with the ASCII code of 13 and 10. So you can get the string what acts as a new line by creating it from these two characters as the others said above.
(CHR$ returns one character wich has the ASCII code passed as it's parameter)

[adosorken]

Can you explain that a little but furthur? I tried putting:

PUT #1, , CRLF

after another PUT but all it did was add a few spaces. And thanks ak00ma that works great.

I thought the fact that I added the two Chr$ lines was hint enough but...

[Jotz]

Is there any alternative of SCREEN for getting the color of a text character? I'm sure there is a method involving PEEK but I don't understand it that much at the moment.

[adosorken]

PEEK is the only other way, unless you have an array that you use to keep track of such things...of course, that makes such a very simple concept horribly over complicated, so you're better off either using SCREEN or PEEK. To use PEEK, you have to know where the screen is (it's at &HB800 for textmode) and then how to read memory (for textmode, memory is divided into two bytes per screen cell: one is for the character and one is for the color, but right now I can't remember which order they,re in...do some trial and error and you'll be able to figure it out..).