So, I'm struggling with a school project, I have a BASIC code, that is programmed on a PALM, I need to translate that to LabView, so first I'm translating the code to pseudocode, but I've never used BASIC before, so I'm having trouble with some lines.
So far, I know that: VariableName# = 15, means the type of the variable is double, and that it can be used on the right side of a number to convert it to double, like
VariableName# = 15#
I also have on my code: OPEN "LPT1" FOR OUTPUT AS #1, opens serial port found on COM1, and names it "LPT1"
But a few lines later I found this, and I don't know what is it supposed to do:
225 FOR J = 1 TO 6000: PRINT #1, 40; : NEXT J
226 FOR ZZ = 1 TO S9: PRINT #1, 41; : NEXT ZZ
I know how FOR statements work, but what is it supposed to print?
PS: It's a solar positioning system.
edit: S9 is defined at the beggining of the program, it's 450.
Lines 225 and 226 are printing to #1 which is mapped to line printer 1 (e.g. the parallel port and usually a centronics connectors)
OPEN "LPT1" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
Next, decimal 40 and 41 are ( and ) respectively. So it's formatting and printing those symbols to your printer.