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<paragraph id="par_id3156280" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Reads a line from a sequential file into a variable.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3161832" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>fileNum</emph>: Number of the file that contains the data that you want to read. The file must have been opened in advance with the Open statement using the key word INPUT.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3151119" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>variable</emph>: The name of the variable that stores the result.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150010" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">With the <emph>Line Input#</emph> statement, you can read strings from an open file into a variable. String variables are read line-by-line up to the first carriage return (Asc=13) or linefeed (Asc=10). Line end marks are not included in the resulting string.</paragraph>
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