So you don't "merge" the (essential) files into the FreeBasic directory structure ?
Could you give a list of those "essentials" ?

Hi, I have 2 questions : 1) Actually I have the following FB directory-structure : bin doc docs examples ext-bin inc lib It seems the zip-file doesn't follow that structure. Which files should I put where ? 2) I seems there is a newer 1.3.5 version at https://www.fltk.org/index.php Can that version ...

Folks, thank you very much for your suggestions ! As I preferred a solution without an external file, I adapted the very helpful grindstones example to my needs. To be honest, I only saw the much shorter Oschmidt solution after having finished that, but will certainly look into it (and into the comm...

It looks like you're missing important basics, so please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm Certainly not, having developed professionally and privatly all my life :-) I perfectly know all kind of sorting algorithmes and their strenghts / weak...

Ok !

I found out how to recreate the .a library, the problem is solved
Thanks for pointing into the right direction

Is there really no way to have that kind of functionality without having to use an external file ?

Maybe someone knows of an alternative (library) for dir() ?

Yes that's the one

It's a precompiled .a library
I have no clue how I could compile/link it again.

Why, on this forum, does every reply need to be acknowledged by a moderator.
Absolutely time consuming, not handy and annoying

Being incompatible was also one of my thoughts .... Nothing is specified in the docs and it seems there are no newer versions. Not being able to use would be really a pity., because it contains exactly the functions I need (all sort of substring replacements) I couldn't find any other lib which that...

FreeBASIC Compiler - Version 1.05.0 (01-31-2016), built for win32 (32bit) I added the library : fbstrings-1.0-bin-win32.rar When I use the example fbstrings-1.0-bin-win32\examples\replace1.bas I always get the following errors for every line with StrReplace Compiler output: F:\fbstrings-1.0-bin-win3...

I have a question related to the Dir function As far I can see Dir always returns the results in ascending filename order. Maybe I overlooked, but I can't find a way to instruct Dir to provide the results in descending order (on filename and/or date-time) Is that not possible ? Any workaround ? .......