MAT statement. Bug ?

[Roberto Valois]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the MAT statement but it seems to have a bug.

#COMPILE EXE

FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
    DIM i AS LONG
    DIM A(1000) AS BYTE
    
    MAT A() = CON
    
    FOR i = 1 TO 1000
        IF A(i) <> 1 THEN
            MSGBOX "BUG: A(" & STR$(i) & ") should be = 1 but A(" & STR$(i) & ") = " & STR$(A(i))
            EXIT FOR
        END IF
    NEXT i
    
    MSGBOX "FIM"

END FUNCTION

CON(expr) does not work either.

RValois.

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[Lance Edmonds]

Yes, MAT currently does not work with BYTE arrays. It should work fine with the other numeric data types though.

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[Roberto Valois]

Lance,

Thanks, but it does not seem to work with INTEGER and WORD as well.
I also do not manage to place a SIZE inside the parentheses
as it is suggested in the manual.

RValois.

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[This message has been edited by Roberto Valois (edited August 06, 2001).]

[Lance Edmonds]

I'm away from the office right now, but I seem to recall that some of the MAT operators require a 'square' matrix... DIM arry(1000) creates an array which is 1001 subscripts which is not 'square'.

However, when I get back to the office in the morning, I'll double check my notes on MAT and respond back here.

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[Lance Edmonds]

Ok, according to my notes, MAT CON does not currently work with data types of less than 4 bytes each. Therefore, you'll need to use LONG or DWORD, etc, until the next update to the compiler becomes available.

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PowerBASIC Support
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[Roberto Valois]

Thanks.

RValois



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