Name

Type

Optional

Meaning

ASCIIZ

Command

Yes

Optional parameter indicating that address is to be considered a pointer to a NULL terminated string.

If ASCIIZ is specified, PEEK$ reads successive characters from an ASCIIZ buffer of the specified size, until a terminating $NUL (CHR$(0)) byte is found.  Since ASCIIZ strings must contain a terminating $NUL, the maximum length of the returned string is 1 character less than the specified size.

STRING

Command

Yes

If STRING is specified, address is interpreted as a 32 bit placeholder for a dynamic string. This form allow handling dynamic strings inside UDT or using whatever 32 bit number as dynamic string.

Address

Numeric

No

A valid 32-bit memory address specifying the location in memory where data retrieval should begin

Count

Numeric

No

A numeric expression that specifies the number of consecutive bytes to be read from memory starting at address