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Lower()?

    23-Oct-94 08:45:39
Sb: #43420-Lower()?
Fm: Jim Butterfield 73624,14
To: Malcolm O'Brien 76703,4243
Yes, it's interesting to see how the MS-DOS editor EDIT is in fact interlocked with QBASIC .. in fact, you can't have one without the other. (Back to EDLIN? NEVER!!). Whereas PC-DOS had to produce its very own editor in competition .. claimed to be superior, but I can't really tell from the brief runs I have had on each. But for certain jobs, QBASIC is clumsy indeed. Wanna trim a line of text to less than 80 characters, breaking it at the space which precedes position 80? Lotsa luck in QBASIC ("FOR J=80 TO 1 STEP -1 …) Whereas in Rexx, find that space with X=LASTPOS(' ',string,80) and you're in business! –Jim