LINE INPUT Statement
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 Action

 Enters an entire line (up to 255 characters) from the keyboard to a string
 variable, without the use of delimiters.


 Syntax



  LINE INPUT ; " promptstring";  stringvariable


 Remarks


 The argument  promptstring is a string constant. After  promptstring is
 displayed on the screen, entry of data items into the data input field is
 accepted. A question mark is not printed unless it is part of  promptstring.
 All input from the end of  promptstring to the carriage return is assigned
 to  stringvariable.

 A semicolon immediately after the  LINE INPUT keywords keeps the cursor at
 the next character position after the user presses Enter. Omitting a
 semicolon causes the cursor to skip to the next line.

  LINE INPUT uses the same editing characters as  INPUT.


 See Also

  INPUT$ Function,  INPUT Statement


 Example

 See the  DEF SEG statement programming example, which uses the  LINE INPUT
 statement.