' Write a user-specified number of dashes across the screen ' PRINT "How many Dashes" INPUT HOWMANY ' FOR DASH = 1 TO HOWMANY PRINT "-" ; ' The semicolon keeps the output on one line NEXT DASH ' END
Of course, other variable names besides HOWMANY
would work,
as long as you used the same name in both places.
Remember this rule about variables:
the first time a variable occurs in a program it starts out at zero
unless some other value is placed in it with a LET
statement.
Here is the same program with a slight change (a mistake):
' Write a user-specified number of dashes across the screen ' PRINT "How many Dashes" INPUT HOWMANY ' FOR DASH = 1 TO MANY PRINT "-" ; ' The semicolon keeps the output on one line NEXT DASH ' END
The user asks for 25 dashes. How many dashes are printed on the screen?