POSITION:028,114
COLOUR:STANDARD
TEXT:00,All the library routines introduced so far have one thing in common, and
TEXT:16,that is the accepted keyboard data is treated like a character string to
TEXT:16,be redisplayed as text later. This means if we entered a value of 16.13
TEXT:16,using gets(), it will not be stored as an atom value of 16.13, but a 5
TEXT:16,element long character string "16.13". This makes the library routines
TEXT:16,we have mentioned unsuitable for handling numeric data. However,
TEXT:16,Euphoria does have a more sophisticated routine that can accept both
TEXT:16,numeric and character data:
COLOUR:EUPHORIA
TEXT:32,include get.e
TEXT:16,   = get(0)
COLOUR:POINTS
TEXT:00,rs
COLOUR:STANDARD
TEXT:32,get() accepts a Euphoria data object and stores it into a receiving
TEXT:16,sequence variable. This means you can enter any atom value, character
TEXT:16,string representing a sequence, or even a very complex multi-dimensional
TEXT:16,sequence value.
