READ - an I/O statement that reads values from a DATA statement
       and assigns the values to variables
 
Syntax
  READ variablelist
    - variablelist is made up of one or more variables, separated by
      commas, which are to receive the data. The variables may be string
      or numeric. See <DETAILS> about data type conversion performed by
      QuickBASIC.
 
See also  <DATA>  <RESTORE>