Newbie question

Post Reply
PaulKnight
Posts: 19
Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:27 pm
My devices: iPhone SE
Flag: Great Britain

Newbie question

Post by PaulKnight »

Ok, so I must be missing something REALLY obvious here.

I try running the following:

PRINT "hello world"

and get an error message!!

Sorry for the very basic question, but I'm stumped at the first hurdle!

PLEASE - what am I doing wrong!?

Screen shot attached.

Many thanks
Paul
Attachments
IMG_D349AD3A96C1-1.jpeg
IMG_D349AD3A96C1-1.jpeg (126.77 KiB) Viewed 1456 times

User avatar
rbytes
Posts: 1338
Joined: Sun May 31, 2015 12:11 am
My devices: iPhone 11 Pro Max
iPad Pro 11
MacBook
Dell Inspiron laptop
CHUWI Plus 10 convertible Windows/Android tablet
Location: Calgary, Canada
Flag: Canada
Contact:

Re: Newbie question

Post by rbytes »

Apple threw everyone a curve with iOS 11. No doubt they were trying to be helpful by making our our punctuation look more professional when they decided that the standard quote mark, " or AASCI CHR$(34), should be replaced by “ and ”.

That caused consternation for a while. The quote character is used frequently in most computer languages, which don't take kindly to substitutions.

We soon found workarounds. 1. You can hold down the " key and select the vertical quote mark in the popup that appears. 2. You can go to Settings - Keyboard and turn off "Smart Punctuation". It turned out not as smart as Apple had hoped! :lol:
The only thing that gets me down is gravity...

PaulKnight
Posts: 19
Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:27 pm
My devices: iPhone SE
Flag: Great Britain

Re: Newbie question

Post by PaulKnight »

Wow!

Thanks so much for the rapid response rbytes!
I was getting so frustrated with this!

Solution 2 works a treat :-)

Thanks also for the email link - I'll take a look

All the very best
Paul

Post Reply