A Program with loops

[Guest_imported]

I need help with this program.

This program prints a graph of children's ages.
Use the following data:
DATA "Jim", "Jones", 18, "Nancy", "Smith", 12, "Terry", "Bowden", 9, "Michael", Hayes, 19
DATA "Jane", "Doe", 14, "Paula", "Jones", 8, "Richard", "Chamberlin", 13, "Christine", "Pratt", 18
DATA "Glen", "Taylor", 12, "Adam", "Schott", 15

Your output should look like this:


NAME AGE
J. Jones ******************
N. Smith ************
.
.

Please help me!!

 

[edfair]

Post what you have and somebody will probably look at it and give suggestions.
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[lived]

try this easy way:

CLS
? "NAMES", ; , "AGE": ?
ON ERROR GOTO endp : rem exit the loop
DO
READ firstname$, lastname$, age$
? firstname$; " "; lastname$, ; , age$
LOOP
endp:
DATA "Jim", "Jones", "18", "Nancy", "Smith", "12", "Terry", "Bowden", "9", "Michael", Hayes, "19"
DATA "Jane", "Doe", "14", "Paula", "Jones", "8", "Richard", "Chamberlin", "13", "Christine", "Pratt", "18"
DATA "Glen", "Taylor", "12", "Adam", "Schott", "15", "end"
END

miguel
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[Guest_imported]

this creates the right output:


ON ERROR GOTO endp
CLS
PRINT "NAME", "AGE"
DO
READ firstname$, lastname$, age
PRINT LEFT$(firstname$, 1); ". "; lastname$,
PRINT STRING$(age, ASC("*&quot)
LOOP
endp:
END

DATA "Jim", "Jones", 18, "Nancy", "Smith", 12,
DATA "Terry", "Bowden", 9, "Michael", Hayes, 19
DATA "Jane", "Doe", 14, "Paula", "Jones", 8,
DATA "Richard", "Chamberlin", 13, "Christine", "Pratt", 18
DATA "Glen", "Taylor", 12, "Adam", "Schott", 15

 

[MiggyD]

I would only recommend using the TAB() function to set a literal point to start. The comma being used will set the starting point of the next print command to the next print region, and if the NAME is shorter or longer than the last one the next print region may vary.

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