"Open" Problem

[Liquid Snake]

I know what the problem is now. The last variable is being read as part of the second to last variable. So, I made the string the last variable, the problem is gone. However, how can I avoid this problem, say if there is a string variable after another a string variable.

[Ralph]

Just make sure you have a comma (,) immediately after each string variable, as for this data file containing 5 digits and 2 strings:

1 2 3 4A, 5 6B, 7

For numbers, a space is OK, as is a comma. So, this data could also be written as:

1,2,3,4A,5,6B,7

To write this file in QuickBASIC, you would use:

OPEN "Test1.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
PRINT #1, 1; 2; 3;"4A"; ","; 5; "6B"; ","; 7
CLOSE #1

which will write a file that looks like this:
1 2 3 4A , 5 6B , 7

As a matter of principal and consistancy, you might just write ALL your data files with comma separators, thus:

OPEN "Test1.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
PRINT #1, 1; ","; 2;","; 3;",";"4A"; ","; 5;","; "6B"; ","; 7
CLOSE #1

This will write a file that looks like this:

1 , 2 , 3 , 4A , 5 , 6B , 7

[Liquid Snake]

OK, thanks for all the help.