[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/4/2022 1:29 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 13:07 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> The $ is of course used in system and library calls
>>
>> Even when you have fancy BASICs that have explicit variable
>> declarations, and ignoring system and library calls, you still have
>> all the string functions in BASIC which include $.
>>
>> LEFT$, RIGHT$, MID$, STR$, SPACE$, STRING$, NUM$... The list goes on
>> and on...
> 
> Latest VB.Net still has these, sans the '$' symbols.

It seems to have with $ as well.

Module Program
     Sub Main()
         Dim s As String = "ABC"
         Console.WriteLine(Mid(s, 2, 1))
         Console.WriteLine(Mid$(s, 2, 1))
         Console.WriteLine(s.Substring(1, 1))
         Console.ReadKey()
     End Sub
End Module

outputs:

B
B
B

here.

Arne