QBasic 1.1: FIELD Statement

Explanation

Allocates space for variables in a random-access file buffer.

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FIELD [#]filenumber%, fieldwidth% AS stringvariable$ [,fieldwidth% AS stringvariable$] ...

filenumber%	The number of an open file.
fieldwidth%	The number of characters in the field.
stringvariable$	A variable that identifies the field and contains field data.
Record variables usually provide a better way to handle record data.


OPEN "FILEDAT.DAT" FOR RANDOM AS #1 LEN = 80
FIELD #1, 30 AS name$, 50 AS address$