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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.

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 SetFormat

This statement was introduced with Comet32.

SetFormat

Syntax: SetFormat format-statement-label string$

Discussion: The SetFormat statement loads the contents of a string with the variables in a FORMAT.

Example:

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

SetFormat MyFormat MyString$

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

See also GetFormat

This statement was introduced with Comet32.