TYPE: plusBASIC string statement

FORMAT: DEF BYTELIST var$ = byte_list

Action: Creates a string list of 8-bit numbers.

• var$ is a simple string variable.
• byte_list is a series of numeric expressions separated by commas.
• Each number will be stored as one character, making the resulting string length the same as that of the list.
• Error 5, Illegal Quantity results if number is not in the range -256 through 255.
• Numbers less than 0 are treated as twos-complement, resulting in binary value of 256 + number.

TYPE: plusBASIC v0.27i string statement

FORMAT: APPEND BYTELIST var$ = byte_list

Action: As DEF BYTELIST but appends to the end of the string list.

TYPE: plusBASIC system statement_t

FORMAT: DEF INTLIST var$ = integer_list

Action: Creates a binary string of two byte integers in LSB, MSB order,.

• var$ is a simple string variable.
• integer_list is a series of numeric expressions separated by commas
• The length of the string will be the number of integers times 2.
• Numbers less than 0 are treated as twos-complement, resulting in binary value of 65536 + number.

DEF INTLIST A$ = -1, 1, 32768

TYPE: plusBASIC v0.27i string statement

FORMAT: APPEND INTLIST var$ = byte_list

Action: As DEF INTLIST but appends to the end of the string list.

TYPE: plusBASIC v0.71h string statement

FORMAT: DEF RECTLIST var$ = rectangle_list

Action: Creates a binary string containing a series rectangle coordinates.

• var$ is a simple string variable.
• rectangle_list is a series coordinate sets separated by semicolons.
  • Each coordinate set has the syntax x1 , y1 , x2 , y2.
• The length of the string will be the number of coordinate sets times 8.

DEF RECTLIST R$ = 5,7,10,11;20,30,40,50

TYPE: plusBASIC v0.71h string statement

FORMAT: APPEND RECTLIST var$ = rectangle_list

Action: As above but appends to the end of the string list.