MC-Basic:LOC

Returns the number of characters waiting in the input buffer.

In UTF-8 supporting versions 4.5.1 and higher NULL characters are no longer cut

out from strings, resulting in a different behavior:

Len of Chr$(0) is 1:

In former versions NULL characters could not appear in the middle of strings, since      the concationation process cut these characters from the resulting string.
<DeviceHandle>: A handle to a specified port.

Syntax

Loc(<DeviceHandle>)

Availability

All versions

Type

<DeviceHandle>: Long
<return value>: Long

Range

<DeviceHandle>: 1 to 255
<return value>: 0 to512

Scope

Configuration, Task or Terminal

Limitations

Read only

Examples

Loc(1)

See Also

• CLOSE
• INPUT$
• OPEN
• PRINT HASH