INKEY$ doesn't work with fixed length strings

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RE: INKEY$ doesn't work with fixed length strings - Pete - 08-01-2024

Quote:Don't think I have the patience to wait, I could die tomorrow and the world would have to suffer the loss of my perspective, that would be a shame. ;-))

Or you could die today, and we'd have one more day to get over it. Big Grin

j/k

Too much talk about dying in this thread including dying on hills. I mean it's all fun and games until someone's keyboard loses an 'I'.

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k$ = Input$(1)

I remember back in the QB days when some folks used that as a "Press Any Key" SLEEP alternative. I hadn't thought about the return value being only one character in length though, because I knew it worked with F1-F12 keys; but sure enough, it only returns the null character for those keys. Good to know.

Pete