helllooooooo? Does anyone know the answer to this mysterious and magical question? I have tried several programs to do this but none seem to work!!! Is there just a few lines of code I can use? Any...

This is a little program in QBasic which counts the number of characters in a string. Made by Buff - two errors removed by me. Thanks Buff.

Thanks - now works perfectly. Just needed to declare the sub at the beginning rather than in the code, just a tiny error. I think it is reading one character too much though?
DECLARE SUB GetWords...

Do you know how you do that? I hae tried but it doesn't seem to work - i don't know how to read each line of the file...any ideas?
Thanks
TP

What do I need to do if I get an error in QBasic saying call absolute and it doesn't work - or something like that. I don't have absolute to call?!? This is when I have been looking at other peoples...

Does anyone know how to play an already made midi file in QBasic? I have downloaded several peoples programs but they do not seem to work. Does anyone know of any code to play a midi file?
Thanks...

Can anyone make this game any better because at the moment i am stuck. I have been doing it for fun and with my friend - cue Lewis Houghton. It is below what we have done so far:

DECLARE SUB...

That doesn't seem to work. It needs a comma in:
if right$(st$)<>" " then st$=st$+" "
and when you put it in it seems to need an expression?
Any clues?!?
Thanks
TP :rolleyes:

I've produced an exe file in visual basic - (recently downloaded as beta version) When I run it it will start up an excel file - runs fine on my computer but when I try it on another I get error...

Does anyone know how to count the number of characters words in a string or in anything in QBasic? I'm trying to make a hangman game and I have a list of all my words but i need to find out how to...

I am having trouble getting the right code to look at a .txt file and print a random word from a list, going down the .txt file. I can get it to open the file which i think is:
OPEN "whatever" FOR...

Thanks for that but it doesn't seem to work. I'm pretty clueless - do you have any ideas ho to get it to work?
TP

Hi, New to programming & a bit lost. How can I create an exe file inC++ that will startup another program such as Excel??
Thanks in anticipation
TP

Hi - new to all this. Trying to learn C++. How can I create an exe file in C++ that will open another file eg an excel file, when my created exe file is run??
Thanks for any help
TP