I switched back to my 'class' version, with some changes. Works like a charm! In case somebody wants to test stable string sorts, here is a tab-delimited demo file with 1000 lines . Example, sorted first by City (Belyando, ...), then by First name (Aaron, ...): Aaliyah 2716 Simpson Street Belyando ...

If you use a udt array holding the information then quicksort would do. You must set each sort, give it a name, direction and field OP wants to sort a spreadsheet first by column C, then by column A, then by column B, etc., as does Excel. I am afraid QuickSort is not the right one for that task - y...

dodicat wrote:The same rule applies to ShellExecuteExW and wide strings, although the return value of ShellExecuteExW seems to be 1 even with a compile fail.

Interesting. I was about to write "the return value must be greater than 32", but ShellExecuteExW behaves much different than ShellExecuteW.

dim array1(10) As integer print "LB=";LBound(array1) print "UB=";UBound(array1) dim array2(5 to 10) As integer print "LB=";LBound(array2) print "UB=";UBound(array2) LB= 0 UB= 10 LB= 5 UB= 10 So far, so good - but I vaguely remember to have read that FB arrays...

It won't fix any problems you may have but you're leaking the handle to the read end of the pipe. The write end is closed, but not the read. The MSDN example the code is based off has the same error so you translated it too perfectly :-) Good find! Is there any correct example around? I have simila...

I have no problems with command lines longer than 260 chars. But saving or renaming a file with a path longer than 260 chars fails with Explorer (manually) and using CreateFileW programmatically. Below 260, the prepending is not required. Above that, it doesn't help. Pretty confusing.

marcov wrote:source seems to be encoded in some way, won't open with notepad. (despite having an .asc extension)

Wordpad will do, but that won't help you because the fun stuff is under the hood. Fact is you don't have to prepend the \\?\ stuff, CreateProcessW works fine with a plain UTF-16 path.

i did a quick count and the path length including filename is ~271 - doesnt windows have a limit around 260 chars? I count 268 but yes, there is a 260 char limit for the ANSI CreateProcess (and all other ANSI API calls using a path). The solutions are: - shorten your paths or - use CreateProcess W ...

I am more disturbed by the not-so-deliberate incorrect use of commas ;-)

I got a new one, two minutes ago (now at jj+MrSwiss+2 guests):

About an hour ago, the forum was offline again - timeout. Now it's only 2 guests. Our hacker is enjoying this game ;-)

Lost Zergling wrote:@ jj2007: I invite you to share directly with coderJeff your suggestions rather than go through the forum

Which suggestions? Your post doesn't make sense.

I wonder if it's position-dependent: jj2007 and 1 guest

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I perfectly understand your thoughts. It would indeed be a good idea to reduce the confusion, and concentrate on one installation that really works. The question is: which one? C compilers tend to be big behemoths nowadays. Should we pick one that is relatively small, but is very slow? Or the other ...