Re: Applesoft limitation

[mojoehand <jgray@zianet.com>]

On Nov 11, 1:49 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> 1. Assembly code (there are almost certainly some INSTR ampersand
>     or USR commands out there...)

I figured that there were some routines like this, but haven't found
one yet.

> 2. Direct implementation in Applesoft using MID$--not hard, but
>     pretty slow (OK if you don't use it too often).

Bill pointed me to such a routine.

> 3. An intermediate approach using the DATA statement scanner to
>     collect "tokens" for comparison and use.

I'll take a look at your program and see how this method works.

Thanks for the tips.