Kemeny & Kurtz I don't know about. Kemeny and Kurtz were two staff members at Dartmouth College in the USA in the 1960s. They created BASIC. Here's a link that may be of interest: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=815 There's a whole load of information about what they did (oth...

I'll own up to the fact that my use of BASIC goes back to a version of the original by Kemeny & Kurtz (circa 50 years ago). Their idea was to produce a simple language which was easily understood by the programmer and, in those days, was interpreted rather than compiled. It was also basically fo...

Thank you guys. I'd just found the Locate function and am now experimenting. Thanks for getting back so quickly.

I've been usung FreeBasic for years - but basically for batch processing of large amounts of data. (I'm on Windows 64 version). If I write programs which require input I use the normal white on black screen which, after a CLS, starts from the top left of the screen. I would dearly love to make this ...

I would like to thank you all for your assistance. I have managed to create a program that does exactly what I needed derived from the code you supplied. If I ever meet you in a hostelry the drinks will be on me.

Thank you all for stepping in and trying to help. It was much appreciated.

dodicat wrote:Win 10
One of these methods should work.

I was able to rework some of this and used it to do what I needed to do. Thank you.

Sorry, I thought it was a one-liner, but FB is slightly more complicated.. I got a strange result running this code (probably my fault). Firstly I copied and ran it as is without issue. Trying to modify it so that I could download a number of files I altered it bit by bit, firstly by putting the fi...

AFAIK TSNE can't handle https yet. I would recommend using libcurl for that kind of download. This all being new to me I copied your source and tried to run it. I got the following error: C:\PROGRA~2\FREEBA~1\bin\win32\ld.exe: cannot find -lcurl (I'm using FBIde rather than command line) I have no ...

https://promo.betfair.com/betfairsp/pri ... 072020.csv is the file I'm trying to get.

Normally I go to https://promo.betfair.com/betfairsp/prices and click on a file to download - but I'd like to automate the procedure to save some time.

Or possibly not. I used the supplied test_client.bas program with TSNE_V3.bi using one of my own websites as the website to get and all worked perfectly. I am trying to produce a program that will get a .csv file from a website but if I program that site instead of mine I get a "No IPV6 support...

[quote="badidea"]The example works fine here as well. Without 'sub' and for 'qb': #lang "qb" #include "dir.bi" Print "Archive files:" filename$ = __Dir("*", fbArchive) 'first call While Len(filename$) > 0 Print "* " & filename$ filename...

If you had all the experience you claim (and properly read the doc page), then you'll quickly realize two things: BASIC (QuickBasic, QB64 and some/all of the rest) doesn't support initializers . So, this line: Dim As String filename = Dir(filespec, attrib) Is to be splitted in two: Dim As String fi...

Can someone please help me with the DIR function? Firstly, let me explain - I have about 50 years experience with BASIC (I used the very first BASIC developed by Kemeny and Kurtz) and I have whole suites of programs developed using FreeBasic using FBIde, all of which have worked perfectly. However, ...

jj2007 Sorry, but that's way too complex for me. Thanks for trying though. caseih My point about BASIC is that it's supposed to be simple. FreeBasic has gone off on a tangent in some respects. Other versions, like QB64, have stayed with FIELD whereas the FreeBasic alternative is, to me, just a compl...

Thank you for all your suggestions. Sadly, none of them seems practical. I can't show you the output desired but to further understanding... I have in the region of 900 plus objects. Each has a title and can have historical performance figures of up to 20 individual lines following, but many not hav...