That's very clever. Many thanks once again.

I would like to Dim a constant 512-byte string consisting of 256 repetitions of "Er". This pseudocode is essentially what I want: Dim sErrorSec as Const String * 512 = "Er" * 256 ... but this is the only code I can come up with: Dim sErrorSec As String Dim i As uByte sErrorSec = ...

This is what I ended up with. Dim bHINxPtr As UByte Ptr Dim qwFFblock( 0 To 3 ) As ULongInt = { &HFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, &HFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, &HFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, &HFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF} Dim wdBytOfst As UShort Dim wdUCodeLoc As UShort wdUCodeLoc = 0 For wdBytOfst = 0 To ( &H200 - 32 ) If m...

I have an allocation of memory which contains a block of data consisting of 32 repetitions of 0xFF. I would like to search this memory for this block and position the pointer at the following byte. However, I can't come up with a "clean" solution. Is there a built-in function, or a C funct...

Among other things, my conceptual problem was that I did not understand that a string pointer had a length property associated with it.

Thanks again.

Thanks. I had wondered whether that was the solution, but it seems I never properly understood byref versus byval.

I have a main program which reads a ROM image file of size dwROMsiz into a large string, sROMdata. I want to be able to parse this string with Instr in a subroutine. I would prefer that the variables are not Shared, so that the subroutine would be portable. That is, I want to be able to insert the s...

I was originally using Version 1.07.1. Command executed: "C:\FreeBASIC\fbc.exe" "C:\FreeBASIC\FBIDE\FBIDETEMP.bas" Compiler output: C:\FreeBASIC\FBIDE\FBIDETEMP.bas(27) error 42: Variable not declared, stuff in 'print "TEST:" '' screen only' C:\FreeBASIC\FBIDE\FBIDETEMP...

Just FYI, this macro trick doesn't work in earlier versions of the compiler, so I expect that it is not guaranteed to work in future versions.

Thanks. Very clever. Actually, redefining the Print command will be very useful to me. That's because my software usually parses firmware modules, and the structure of these modules changes as new versions emerge. These new versions will usually break my code. Unfortunately, if my program crashes, t...

I want to write the same "stuff" to both the console and the specified file. I have a program which writes updates to a log file, and I want these updates to be echoed on the screen while the program is running.

This works:

Would it be possible to define a macro, PrintC, such that this ... PrintC #f, "text"; "text2" & "text3", data ... resolves to ... Print #f, "text"; "text2" & "text3", data Print "text"; "text2" & "text3&...

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

I would argue that the behaviour of this function is counterintuitive. In any case, it's inappropriate for my application, so I've had to write my own trivial 7-bit ASCII version.

Thanks again.

Why does the Isalnum function in crt/ctype.bi not return 0 for all ubyte values greater than 0x7F? Why is it not limited to 7-bit ASCII characters? This table lists Hex(ubytvar) and Hex(Isalnum(ubytvar)): 00 00 01 00 02 00 03 00 04 00 05 00 06 00 07 00 08 00 09 00 0A 00 0B 00 0C 00 0D 00 0E 00 0F 00...