Chapter 5: CALL SYMPUT

5.1 Leading and Trailing Blanks

5.2 A Similar Lesson, Using Recursion

5.3 Test Your Skill

5.3.1 Programming Challenge #4a

5.3.2 Solution

5.3.3 Programming Challenge #4b

5.3.4 Solution

5.3.5 Programming Challenge #4c

5.3.6 Solution

5.4 Function Shifts in the Real World

5.5 A Key Issue: Extra Blanks

A macro variable that is only two characters long can take on 65,536 different values. When the length of a macro variable reaches 65,534 characters, the number of values reaches a staggering level: 256 ** 65,534. With so many possible values, some of them would certainly cause trouble if they found their way into a program. And CALL SYMPUT is the best tool for causing such trouble. It can assign any conceivable value to a macro ...

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