Thanks guys but I thought I could OPEN a file with data stored sequentially or even randomly with any file number I wanted. I will often store data multiple files with negative values or multiple files with positive values and the subsequent OPEN uses either an even number for the file for the positive data and an odd number for the negative data. I could for example OPEN file #33 and file #52 with no problems at all. The vast majority of the time the files are OPEN for INPUT and the subsequent INPUT #33 and INPUT #52 has worked without problems. I hadn't realized that the file number was an issue with a Seek statement.

I forgot about RANDOM. I don't work a lot with Random but when I did, I thought the data had to be stored as Random and then retrieved as Random. That being said however, I don't work a lot with Seek either but was pretty sure it should have worked with sequentially stored data and what I was trying to do was reset my Inputs back to the beginning of the file (Seek (1)) and then For Loop to the data I want to work with. But I gather Seek works only with Random??

The other thing that has me puzzled is the Seek statement itself. I believe I use to be able to write Seek #32, 1 but the wiki seems to have that 2nd Seek in the statement ..SEEK 32, SEEK(1) and it has dropped the use of the "#"

Makes the whole sub static.

Always glad to hear when someone enjoys any of my stuff.  Many thanks!  ;)

Really it's just one line of code? Why not that? Too easy!

Maybe you can ask the guy who suggested it to write you up a demo on how to do it?  ;D

Welcome @dcromley

Are you talking about static for the whole sub or all the variables in it?
Was this something in earlier QB?

I know you can have Static variables in a Sub but I don't think that's what you mean.

There's no mention of STATIC for the SUB itself:  https://wiki.qb64.org/wiki/SUB


Such as the above...