From: nospam.Nick.Andre@f426.n229.z1.fidonet.org   
      
   On 23 Mar 22  12:35:53, Manuel Adorni said the following to All:   
      
   MA> Anyone have an Mystic BBS structures for QBasic?   
      
   Likely not, but its easy to do Pascal to Basic. Use my two function calls:   
      
   DECLARE FUNCTION Bas$ (text$)   
   DECLARE FUNCTION Pas$ (text$)   
   FUNCTION Bas$ (text$)   
       IF LEN(text$) > 0 THEN   
           Bas$ = MID$(text$, 2, ASC(MID$(text$, 1, 1)))   
       END IF   
   END FUNCTION   
   FUNCTION Pas$ (text$)   
       IF text$ <> "" THEN   
           Pas$ = CHR$(LEN(text$)) + text$   
       ELSE   
           Pas$ = ""   
       END IF   
   END FUNCTION   
      
   You use these Qbasic functions when you work to-and-from Pascal strings   
   because the first byte is the length of the string.   
      
   So if you had this Pascal structure:   
      
   type my_structure = record   
    something as string[255];   
   end type;   
   var my_data = my_structure;   
      
   In Qbasic it would be:   
      
   TYPE MYSTRUCTURE   
    SOMETHING AS STRING * 256   
   END TYPE   
   DIM MYDATA AS MYSTRUCTURE   
      
   Then in Qbasic you would use this to retrive the value:   
      
   BasicText$ = Bas$(MYDATA.SOMETHING)   
      
   For storing a Basic string to Pascal, it would be:   
      
   MYDATA.SOMETHING = Pas$(BasicText$)   
      
   Booleans and Char Pascal-types are one byte, so STRING * 1 in Basic. A boolean   
   True equals CHR$(1).   
      
   When working with records, you must define the length of the structure in the   
   Qbasic OPEN call:   
      
   THEPOSITION = 1   
   OPEN "MYSTIC\COWBELL.DAT" FOR RANDOM AS #1 LEN = LEN(MYDATA)   
    GET #1, THEPOSITION, MYDATA   
   CLOSE #1   
      
   Hope this helps,   
      
   Nick   
      
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