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Re: Name and favourite colour [message #85115 is a reply to message #85105]

Fri, 05 July 2013 23:19

don.doran
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Registered: July 2013

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On Thursday, 4 July 2013 19:28:19 UTC+1, don....@btinternet.com wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I'm a newby student to idl. One problem which has stumped me is:
>
> Write a programme that asks for your name and favorite color, and then prints out a sentence that includes them. I think this uses the read command, but so far unable to get anything that works. Help. Cheers, Don

Thanks for that help Phillip, what I understand now is:
read, a, b, prompt="Enter name and favorite colour."
;;Assuming I enter Don and yellow, then.
PRINT, "Hi Don, your choice of yellow is a good one."
;;I can't figure out how the computer picks up my name and colour to include in the sentence. Cheers, Don

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		Name and favourite colour By: don.doran on Thu, 04 July 2013 11:28
		Re: Name and favourite colour By: Phillip Bitzer on Thu, 04 July 2013 12:44
		Re: Name and favourite colour By: don.doran on Fri, 05 July 2013 23:19
		Re: Name and favourite colour By: Matthew Argall on Sat, 06 July 2013 17:06
		Re: Name and favourite colour By: don.doran on Mon, 15 July 2013 13:41

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