Is this forum for me?

[wdc202]

I am new here; suspect this forum is way too advanced for me. I am using an old version of MS-DOS QBASIC. Is there another forum that is better suited for me?

FWIW ... this is a typical question I have:

I have a WORD table with 2 columns and 600 rows in which each cell consists of a 6-digit number. Is there a simple way I can "copy" these cells into a QBASIC program so that I can use QB to do some math manipulations on the data?

Thanks.

[bushmobile]

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=47052

We have an Other Basic (http://www.vbforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16) forum - you can probably get your question answered there

[smUX]

wdc, I would say that in a way YES this is the forum for you...if you're willing to learn VB that is. VB is a great stepping stone up from QBasic (and QB was my previous language before I got the hang of VB :-))...a lot of VB commands mirror exactly the commands in QB, and once you get used to the fact that there's no command line output so you can't PRINT stuff like in QB it's usually easy enough to get the hang of it.

And if you still want to use QBasic and don't get your question answered in the other forum, try usenet as there's a few QBasic and BASIC discussion groups there...just go to http://groups.google.com :-)

[shirazamod]

I suggest finding another forum for your QBasic questions as there aren't that many people in the Other Basic forum.

Or better yet, learn VB!

[Hack]

Moved to Other Basic

[Merri]

You might want to take a look at FreeBASIC compiler (http://www.freebasic.net/): it is mostly compatible with QBasic yet it is very powerful and has very useful additions to the language (bitshifting and pointers to name a few). It can compile programs to Windows, DOS and Linux. They also have nice support forums (http://www.freebasic.net/forum/).

And as the name stands: it is free.