In article <cbkulb$751$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>,
Simon Slavin
<slavins.delete.these.four.words.RemoveThis@hearsay.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/06/2004, Marco wrote in message
> <NJFCc.4997$lL2.387068@twister.tampabay.rr.com>:
>
> > this basic program (simple poetry-generating program) keeps giving me
> > errors.
>
> /What/ errors ? Tell us what it says and when.
>
> > 430 data "in" "the" "cool" "stream"
>
> Aren't you meant to have commas in there ?
>
> Simon.
Actually..., no!
Those look to be meant as complete one line strings.
The first 20 are single words, the next 20 are single line
phrases. Thus that should be -
430 data "in the cool stream"
Of course it's been over 20 years since I've done anything with
BASIC and I don't remember it very much.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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