One Item per Line

The examples showed the same line of data read as a string and read as a number. Different things happened. This can be confusing. To keep things simple, put just one item of data per line (a number or a string) and write programs that read one item at a time. This is not what professional programmers do, but good enough for begining programmers. If you need to do more, read some of the documentation that comes with QBasic. (You can see this by hitting Shift+F1 when QBasic is running.)