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FREE

Retrieves the free space still available for strings, in terms of bytes. This is how many characters are still available to be stored. The maximum value when calling this function is that indicated by the DEFINE STRING SPACE statement. The default value for string storage is 1024 bytes. The command implicitly invokes garbage collection.

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SYNTAX

 ... = FREE


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  • id : identifier
  • type : datatype
  • v : value
  • "..." : string
  • [...] : optional

EXAMPLE

 PRINT FREE


ABBREVIATION: Fre

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An interesting competition is held at the beginning of each year: the BASIC 10Liner Contest. It is possible to use ugBASIC to participate in the next "BASIC10Liner" competition, in the following categories:

  • PUR-120 - A game in 10 lines of max 120 characters (w/abbrev.)
  • EXTREME-256 - A game in 10 lines of max 256 characters (w/abbrev.)
  • SCHAU - Any program in 10 lines of max 256 characters (w/abbrev.)
In order to reduce space you can use this abbreviation for this instruction: 

FREE ↔ Fre

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