Freebasic 1.04.0 32bit on Windows 7/8 64bit. When I'm in the gdb debugger, how do I print an item in an array? dim filearr(2) as string filearr(0)="zero" filearr(1)="one" At the debugger prompt, I type 'p FILEARR(0)' and I get an error 'Invalid data type for function to be called...

Doh! Thank you. What I could use is a list of reserved words so I can grep though them easily.

Please be patient, I'm still learning Freebasic. Freebasic 1.04.0 32 bit on Win 7/8 64-bit. I get an error 4 "Duplicate definition lpos" in the code below. The below code is a separte BAS file which is not my main program. Beginning with the first line: ' Markdown to XHTML file for Freebas...

Freebasic 1.04.0 32 bit, "target: win32 486 32bit" but my Windows 8 is a 64-bit OS on a 64-bit machine. Is that a problem? I thought Win8 would be backward compatible with 32bit apps.

As I use #include "something.bi" does my EXE grow because library codes is being added to the EXE?
Do I have to distribute any DLL files with my EXE file?

Just wondering.

Thank you.

Given a filename that is a text file, this checks to see if the file exists, and if it does, it reads the file into an array. sub readfile(Byref fn as string, filearr() as string) ' This also ignores comment lines beginning with '#'. ' Usage: ' Dim as string filename ' Dim filearr() as string ' read...

I changed my inc\pcre.bi back to what it was, and I'm still getting an error -2. This is my inc\pcre.bi:
Any ideas?

Freebasic 1.04.0 on Windows 7/8. When I search for a regex in a string I get an error inside my routine getregexstr which I copied from this forum somewhere I think. Here's the subroutine. function getregexstr(buffer as string, pattern as string) as string ' Returns blank if not found, matched part ...

I have Windows 8. I opened the CHM help file for Freebasic 1.04, and it opens showing the TOC, but when I click on an entry on the TOC, no text shows up in the left hand help pane. This was true of the CHM file for Freebasic 0.90 also. Any ideas how to fix this? I'd be fine if I could download a tre...

Got it. fxm, would you mind if I posted your routine in the forum for Tips and Tricks?

Freebasic 1.04.0 on Win 7/8. I'm a Freebasic beginner, long time Perl programmer. I've Googled the forum and the internet and didn't find what I was looking for. Basically I need a Freebasic regex lib that supports back references. I'm a Perl programmer and in Freebasic I want to be able to convert ...

Thank you! I got it working but I did have to update freebasic\inc\pcre.bi to look like this: #pragma once '#inclib "pcre" #inclib "pcre3" #include once "pcre-common.bi" and I did have to put pcre3.dll in the same dir as my EXE and BAS file. Not sure why since my path i...

I just changed the parameters to outarr() and it worked, which is similar to what you did. Thank you!

Windows 7 cmd box, Freebasic 1.04.0. New to Freebasic, I'm used to Perl. I'm trying to create a general purpose subroutine where, given the filename, it reads the whole text file into an array. Currently I have: sub readfile(Byref fn as string, filearr() as string) ' Read .BLD file and set global va...

I'm on Win7, cmd window using Freebasic 1.04.0 for win32 and I'm new to Freebasic. I'm normally a Perl programmer so I'm real partial to regex. I'm getting an error when I compile "c:\me\compiler\freebasic104\bin\win32\ld.exe: cannot find -lpcre". From searching around it sounds like I nee...