Hi. I do not know, why your code works not, but if you need working on it, you can use this way:
DIM SHARED Leaders(9, 5) AS STRING * 20
OPEN "names.lbx" FOR BINARY AS #1
SEEK #1, 548
rec$ = SPACE$(20)
FOR read_it = 0 TO 5
GET #1, , rec$
Leaders(0, read_it) = rec$
NEXT read_it
FOR i%% = 0 TO 5
PRINT Leaders(0, i%%)
NEXT i%%
I try the same as in your code with PUT (for creating Leaders file) also with bug message.
DIM text(10, 10) AS STRING * 20
FOR x = 0 TO 10
FOR y = 0 TO 10
FOR text = 1 TO INT(19 * RND)
t$ = t$ + CHR$(32 + RND * 96)
NEXT text
text(x, y) = t$
t$ = ""
NEXT y, x
OPEN "names.lbx" FOR BINARY AS #2
PUT #2, , text$()
CLOSE 2
Error message:
In file included from qbx.cpp:2171:
..\\temp\\main.txt: In function 'void QBMAIN(void*)':
..\\temp\\main.txt:86:107: error: lvalue required as unary '&' operand
sub_put( 2 ,NULL,byte_element((uint64)(&(qbs_new_fixed(&((uint8*)(__ARRAY_STRING20_TEXT[0]))[(0)*20],20,1))),(20*(__ARRAY_STRING20_TEXT[2]&1)*__ARRAY_STRING20_TEXT[5]*__ARRAY_STRING20_TEXT[9])-(20*(0)),byte_element_7),0);
^
compilation terminated due to -Wfatal-errors.
This errors do GET and PUT. If this are commented, then compilation run.