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condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
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`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social

11/25/2025, 2:26:39 AM

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"This program uses a one-dimensional dynamic string array to store names of characters from the movie "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.""
An example program from "Learn BASIC Now," a 1989 book from Microsoft Press.

A page of a book. In the middle a highlighted example program source code.
Full text:

6. An end-of-data marker is a number or string indicating that no more data items exist in a list.
7. One possible solution to this problem is the BANZAI.BAS program:
" BANZAI.BAS
* This program uses a one-dimensional dynamic string array to store names
* of characters from the movie "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai."
OPTION BASE 1 * set array base at 1
CLs
PRINT "+ This program collects character names from the film ";
PRINT "'Buckaroo Banzai’ #+"
PRINT
INPUT "How many names would you like to enter? *, names}
DIM characters$(names%) * dimension array
PRINT * £111 dynamic array
FOR i% = 1 TO names
INPUT "Name: ", characters$(i%)
NEXT i%
PRINT
PRINT "You entered the following names:"
PRINT
FOR i% = 1 TO names% * print contents of array
PRINT characters$(i%)
NEXT 1%

8. An out-of-range error occurs when your program attempts to reference an element that does not exist in an array
9. One possible solution to this problem is the BASEBALL.BAS program.

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