Sean Astin is the greatest BASIC programmer of our generation (opens in new tab)

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40 pointswunderbaba5y ago4 comments

4 comments

I saw this headline and pictured him as a hobbit terminator, with BASIC code scrolling down one side of his field of view.

n4r95y ago

Does BASIC allow padded string formatting? If so, you only need the one loop.

szc5y ago

No, but there are other tricks, such as prepending enough zeros and then taking the rightmost 4 characters from the string...

FOR I = 0 TO 9999 : A$ = RIGHT$("000"+STR$(I),4) : ... rest of the code : NEXT I

DIM FourDigitPassword INTEGER ?

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