Sean Astin is the greatest BASIC programmer of our generation (specularrealms.com) 40 points by wunderbaba 5y ago ↗ HN
[–] n4r9 5y ago ↗ Does BASIC allow padded string formatting? If so, you only need the one loop. [–] szc 5y ago ↗ No, but there are other tricks, such as prepending enough zeros and then taking the rightmost 4 characters from the string...FOR I = 0 TO 9999 : A$ = RIGHT$("000"+STR$(I),4) : ... rest of the code : NEXT I
[–] szc 5y ago ↗ No, but there are other tricks, such as prepending enough zeros and then taking the rightmost 4 characters from the string...FOR I = 0 TO 9999 : A$ = RIGHT$("000"+STR$(I),4) : ... rest of the code : NEXT I
[–] perl4ever 5y ago ↗ I saw this headline and pictured him as a hobbit terminator, with BASIC code scrolling down one side of his field of view.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 21.1 ms ] threadFOR I = 0 TO 9999 : A$ = RIGHT$("000"+STR$(I),4) : ... rest of the code : NEXT I