Talk:How to make a simple collision (part 1)/@comment-74.240.178.82-20141018234806/@comment-5334617-20141019222336

You have discovered one of the problems with this tutorial. If you are an intermediate programmer, you should know how to look up the types of the values that go with : if nothing else, this wiki has a page MID$ (Function). It indicates that the first parameter to  is a string, and in BASIC, string variable names always end in. So, instead of, try.