Curious if I am thinking about this right.

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the dueting continues

"Wrong direction"  ??? me with a true one-liner single statement showing another feature of QB64pe that can not be found in that other vesion of QB64.
Low bytes is good too, for sure!, but that is another direction ("colonscopey" let's call it) which I don't dare call "wrong", just a little misguided maybe.

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Print Val(_InputBox$("Convert number from inches to mm.", "Enter a number")) * 25.4

Wrong direction in the fact that you went from a fully functional program to one that now does only half the required work in that single line of code. The above only converts from inches to mm, but it can't convert from mm to inches. It might be half the lines of what you had before, but it does half the work as well. I'd consider that going in the "wrong direction" in the code. You want to compare apples to apples, not apples to half-apples.

I don't see any way to get full functionality and do both processes in a single line of code, without using a colon to cram multiple statements on that line. Maybe later tonight I'll brainstorm something crazy to do so, but I doubt it.

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Hey, silly question.  What about the BAM code I shared would not work in QB64PE ?

There's no INPUT _IFF format with QB64PE.

Well so Steve can get a good nights sleep tonight:

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Print Val(_InputBox$("Convert number from inches to mm.", "Enter a number")) * 25.4, Val(_InputBox$("Convert number from mm to inches.", "Enter a number")) / 25.4

It's up to the user if he wants to enter the same number both times, so hey it's a little more flexible.