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GetFormat

Syntax: GetFormat format-statement-label string$

Discussion: The GetFormat statement distributes one string amongst the contents of all variables in a FORMAT. It "reads" the format from the string.

Example:

Length 10 & local a$,b$
MyFormat: FORMAT a$;b$

GetFormat MyFormat MyString$

Following the GetFormat, a$ would contain the first 10 bytes of MyString$ and b$ would contain the next 10 bytes.

See also PutFormat

This statement was introduced with Comet32.

PutFormat

Syntax: PutFormat format-statement-label string$

Discussion: The PutFormat statement loads the contents of a string with the variables in a FORMAT. It "writes" the format into the string.

Example:

Length 10 & local a$,b$
MyFormat: FORMAT a$;b$

 MyString$ = PutFormat(MyFormat)

Following the PutFormat, MyString$ would contain the concatenation of a$ and b$.

See also GetFormat

This statement was introduced with Comet32.