====== FIELD ======
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Allocates memory space for variables of a record structure of a random-access file

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**Implemented by:** [[:basics:decbasic:]], [[:basics:trs80:trsdisk]], [[:basics:trs80:level3]], [[:basics:trscolor:colordisk]], [[:basics:GWBASIC:]], [[:basics:MSX:msxdisk]], [[:basics:bwbasic:]], [[:basics:bwbasic:bw32]], [[:basics:ABasiC:]], [[:basics:msqb:QBasic]], [[:basics:VBDOS:]], [[:basics:FreeBASIC:]]

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===== Usage =====
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Microsoft BASICs implement FIELD as a way of mapping fixed-width chunks read from a random-access file into string variables.

Syntax remains similar: the first argument is a file identifier, then a number of characters, the [[AS]] keyword and the name of the string variable which will store the data. A comma separates each sequence of "size AS variable":

''FIELD #1, 20 AS RN$, 20 AS RS$''

In [[:basics:msx:|MSX BASIC]], FIELD is implemented by the [[:basics:msx:msxdisk|MSX DiskBASIC extension]].

==== Variations ====



===== Examples =====
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  10 PRINT "HELLO"
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