MAP$

[eternaldarkness]

I was just wondering, I was looking at some programs i saw on the net, and I found the syntax MAP$

Can anyone please tell me what this means??

Thank you!

Week of March 30th saying:
Those who abide by the light...
Live by the darkness

[na_th_an]

I looks like a string variable. It can contain text:

Code:

MAP$="Hello!"
PRINT MAP$

[wizardlife]

I was just wondering, I was looking at some programs i saw on the net, and I found the syntax MAP$

Can anyone please tell me what this means??

Thank you!

Week of March 30th saying:
Those who abide by the light...
Live by the darkness

In all probability MAP$ was a function in the program code, like this:

Code:

FUNCTION GetName$()
  INPUT "What's yer name?", temp$
  GetName$ = temp$
END FUNCTION

Then in the main program, if you ever check the value of GetName$, it will run that function and return whatever value you set it to. Pretty nifty, huh?

[Hard Rock]

Well, he could also have theoritcally used map$ as, well his map to save memory and get a speed hit.(it has been used for a few games i think, but i do belive acessing it is pretty slow, especially compared to ints)

Or what you guys said

(i just wanted to flash my new avatar again)

[eternaldarkness]

I want to thank you all...

Yes I believe it might be a function, I've used them a lot in C when making applications to help me with geometry...

I guess it might be that the programmer used it to check whether that was a spaced you were allowed to move to, or something.

Thanks Again,
Eternal Darkness