On 2018-08-19, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: >> >> I tried to look up their online documentation, but it's one of >> those stupid javascript-only sites, and I tend to avoid that. >> Attention economy? I can play that: they won't get mine. > > So somebody agrees with me. > A well done HTML manual is in the Debian package. > Thanks >
I glanced at some doc and your manner of creating a variable is rather opinionated. You can test for successful file opening thusly: if (not open(#1,"test.dat","r")) print "Can't open the file!" Opening test.dat in the current directory, reading and printing its contents, which are: one two three four five six seven eight nine code: open 1,"test.dat","r" while(!eof(1)) input #1 a$ line input b$ print "a$=\"",a$,"\", b$=\"",b$,"\"" wend To create a variable (and then open and read that): a=open("foo") input #a a$ I ain't no programmer, but sure is butt ugly. -- "She was a blank wall, fresh painted." Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine