Questions tagged [business-basic]
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What is error 31 in BBx (Business Basic)?
I am currently trying to transfer a few thousand records out of a MULTIKEYED file to a flat STRING file, that is building a large SQL INSERT statement to take the data off of our servers FILE bases system to insert into SQL Server for testing.
I…
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Passing variables in Business Basic appears to not be working
The following code calls a program I made that automatically creates an input field with brackets on either side at a certain length.
C$ is a standard variable we use in all our programs in the business;
the length is 10;
Age: is the label;
the x…
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How to read a txt file in BBx4
I have a >30 year old program in BBx what need to read something outside it's own database. Actually it must be something very simple like
txt$ = read (message.txt)
print txt$
However there isn't any documentation available. So my question is: How…
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Looking for backwards seach in string in BBx Business basic
I look for a way to search in a string, starting from the last character.
I do have a solution with a for next loop and parse the string one by one. But there must be a smarter way to do this. I have tried to do this with
pos (" "=i$)
but this…
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How are databases typically implemented in SCO Unix versions of Business Basic?
We have an older reservation application written in BASIC implemented on an SCO Open Server Unix box. It is Release 5 from 2004 (version info from uname -a is "SCO_SV churchil 3.2 5.0.7 i386").
The reservation application is written in BASIC, which…
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