CHAPTER 4 — The INPUT Statement

In this chapter you will learn about the QBasic INPUT statement. The INPUT statement gets data from the computer keyboard.

Chapter Topics

• Input and Output in a computer system.
• INPUT statement.
• Prompting the user.
• Entering number data.
• Using several INPUT statements.

Up until now in these notes, all the data a program uses have been part of the program itself. For example:

' Calculate Miles per Gallon
'
LET MILES = 45678.3 - 45149.6
LET GALLONS = 12.5
PRINT MILES / GALLONS
END

The data is the first odometer reading (45149.6), the second odometer reading (45678.3), and the number of gallons.