Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

  ◄QuickSCREEN►      ◄Details►      ◄Example►      ◄Contents►      ◄Index►
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
INPUT - a device I/O statement that reads input from the keyboard
        during program execution and stores it into a list of variables
 
Syntax
  INPUT[;]["promptstring"{;|,}]variablelist
    ■ variablelist is one or more variables separated by commas
    ■ promptstring, if used, is displayed on the screen to tell the user
      of the program what to enter at the keyboard
    ■ the characters ";" and "," are ◄Details►
 
See Also  ◄INKEY$►
Other Uses of the INPUT Keyword
  ◄LINE INPUT► - to read an entire line of input from the keyboard and store
               it in one string variable
  ◄INPUT #► - to retrieve data items (or "fields") from a sequential file
            record and store them into a list of variables
  ◄LINE INPUT #► - to retrieve an entire record from a sequential file and
                 store it into one string variable