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While I'm happy to agree about returning an empty string in this case, it should be consistent so that any attempt to slice from a larger index to a smaller one should either return the empty string or return an error, but not this pile of pants! This is, currently, as I found in SSB, a bug. Cheers,...

I think that attempting to slice a string from the wrong end, as here, should either always return an empty string, or always return an error. This behaviour is not consistent. I discovered this problem in SSB where it uses variables to slice the string, not hard coded values. So: in$ = in$(temp to ...

XorA wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:25 pm Is it because line 20 is only only one char wide even if you are going the wrong direction?

Dunno!

Line 20 returns an empty string but only if (end_pos - start_pos) = -1. Any other negative difference between start_pos and end_pos results in the error message.

Cheers,
Norm.

Thanks Per. I suggest therefore, that we have a bug!


Cheers,
Norm.

I'm using QPC2, the latest version in case that makes a difference. If I define a string with some contents, then try to take a slice of that string where the start position is one less than the end position, I get the empty string. If the end position is 2 or more less than the start position, I ge...

I recommend Norman's excellent assembly book (free): https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QLAssemblyLanguageBook/ And lots of links in this thread: https://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=35362&hilit=norman+assembler+book I thank you, Sparrowhawk, for the vote of confidence! In addition to the fre...

Ok, I've submitted a build of the updated docs as version 4.0.2 which has completed successfully. The following commands have been fixed and the escape characters before underscores in code blocks have been removed: DIR, DO. ENV_DEL, EW. FTEST. GT$. KEY_ADD. PARHASH, PTH_ADD. SET_LANGUAGE. Appendix ...

QLvsJAGUAR wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:18 am ...I assume those are typos.

Technically, no!

They are escape characters to prevent the underscore from beginning italic text, but they shouldn't have been in the output. I shall have a look and see if I can find these, and more, and fix them all.

Cheers,
Norm.

I will update the version, when changes are made in future, thanks for the prompt.

I'm afraid that I have no control over the download file names, that's "Read The Docs" , not me. They generate the downloads. Sorry.


Cheers,
Norm.