OpenEuphoria

1. Phix Question

• Posted by lgregg May 15, 2021
• 1040 views

I was trying out Phix on Linux and ran the following from the phix documentation

object line
puts(1, "What is your name?\n")
line = gets(0)
line = line[1..length(line)-1]
puts(1, '\n')
puts(1, line & " is a nice name.\n")

output to screen

What is your name? 
Larry 
Larry 
Larry is a nice name. 

• the first Larry I typed
• why is gets(0) typing Larry to the screen?
• third Larry is expected

3. Re: Phix Question

• Posted by ChrisB (moderator) May 16, 2021
• 965 views

Hi

I remember this was a perennial pain in the rear for me when I wrote my console based database on Linux. It's something to do with the console / terminal echoing back the input. There might be a way to turn it off, but I wrote a work around, which doesn't use gets()

object line 
object c 
 
line = "" 
while 1 do 
   c = wait_key() 
   if c = 10 then exit end if 
   puts(1, c)                   --to echo the character 
   --printf(1, " %d\n", {c})    --uncomment to echo the character number 
   line &= c                    --to append the character to line 
end while 
 
puts(1, line & " is a nice name! Also works with Chris.") 
 

Cheers

Chris