Also bear in mind that the "TO" expression in a "FOR" statement is calculated at the start of the loop, and not re-calculated. So the following loop terminates at 5, and doesn't go on ad infinitum. n = 5 for i = 1 to n n = n+1 next i I believe this is normal in most BASICs.

Hmmm, as a more boring programmer I would have probably done the following: Function hToPow2( Byval value As Uinteger ) As Uinteger Static Dim n As Uinteger dim z as uinteger function = 0 z=2 for n = 1 to 31 if value = z then function = n end if z = z shl 1 next n End Function ' Test loop dim x as u...

Wow! is this the first Virus in FreeBasic?

Think I read somewhere there was a bug or feature - you have to put a range: DEFSTR S-S

...or you can resource it... True if in Windows. If not ... just thinking about something else, and found you can do the following in FreeBasic. This might be useful to you at some point. enum sector north = 1 south = 2 west = 3 east = 4 end enum data north, east, west, south Reading the above will...

Even better idea while I was cooking dinner.

Don't bother with merging the program and the .txt file. Just convert the .txt file to DATA statements as mentioned above, writing out as a FB include file, .bi, then at the end of your operational program put an #include statement for it.

Well, while Kayak's method is, as I said, ingenious, the "safer" way to do it is to write a little Basic progam which first reads the source of your operational program (which itself uses READ) and copies it forward to a new file, then reads the .TXT file and for each line appends to the o...

Ingenious!

But can you get it to write itself?

In FreeBasic, variables are by default 32-bit integers, not floating-point.

Specify DEFSNG A-Z as first line of your program.

my target is ... to create a portable program by which user, only entering a street's name, obtain a text string that explains if that street is at north or south or east or west of the city Data Statements should be OK until the city builds a new street - then you will have to re-release. Here's a...

@Eagle: The DATA statement referred to allows you to define what is effectively constant data in your program at the time you are writing the program, and the READ statement allows you to load that data into program variables. It is effectively a method of initialising variables. The program source ...

Not sure one would always want list members to be deallocated when they went out of scope, or when they were removed from a list. E.g. an application I am looking into is a Single Transferable Vote counting system. Each ballot paper would be held in a linked list attached to a candidate. As a candid...

I would not expect people to push/pop entire udt's onto a linked list, that, imo, would not be the right solution. I would propose pushing the address of the udt . That's reasonable. I hadn't thought of that. It adds another level of complexity, but it would remove the identification of the UDT's b...

Cha0s: a masterpiece of programming. My main question is: How useful is it for any practical application? Most times one wants a linked list, it is not just to hold simple numerics, but to hold more complex UDTs, e.g. in a game it might be weapons, armour, magic scrolls ... The developer would have ...

For floating point, it will need to be a 486DX, or a 486SX with the added co-processor.

It will run on Windows 98 no problem.