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)