WILLTEK 4403 - Space; I;O Functions

Chapter 6 RAPID!
Functions
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SPACE$
I/O functions The 4400’s RAPID! environment provides a large number of I/O functions:
Description
Returns the last
chars characters of aString$, or the
whole string if
chars is greater than the amount of
characters contained in
aString$.
Should
chars have decimal places, then those will be
truncated (this means that there will be no rounding).
Examples
a$="Good morning"
c$=RIGHT$(a$,7)
Will assign the string "morning" to c$.
Syntax
SPACE$(chars)
Parameters
chars is a numeric expression, interpreted as positive
integer.
Description
Returns a string containing a total amount of
chars
blanks.
Examples
d$ = "Long"+SPACE$(1)+"distance"
will assign the string "Long distance" to d$.
Function Short description
CHDIR Changes the current directory.
CLOCK Returns the time since the system was last started.
CURDIR$ Returns the currently selected directory.
DATE$ Returns a string, containing the system date.
DIR$ Function to read out the entries in a directory.
EOF Checks whether the end of a file was reached.
EVENTWAIT,
EVENTSTATUS
Waits for an event and returns the event code.
FREEFILE Returns the subsequent free file handle.
INKEY Checks whether a softkey was pushed and returns
its code.
INKEYWAIT Halts the program until a softkey is pushed.
KILL Deletes a file.
MKDIR Creates a new directory.
NAME Renames an existing file.
RMDIR Removes a directory.