TRIM$, ANY - "feature"..

[Borje Hagsten]

Machine is ok. Better to do a Ctrl+Alt+Del on my brain instead..

Never been good at keeing the crayon inside the lines. Like to be
flexibel, which is one of the reasons I love the PB compiler so much.
It adds a dimension of "artistic" freedom I have never encountered in
any other language/compiler. DDT, SDK, resource file dialogs, inline
ASM - even third-party visual designers like EZGUI, etc? Anything goes.
With PB, we are allowed to rule over our code.

Love it, even if it means my poor old mind sometimes gets confused by
all the neat ways to do things in PB and I start doing stupid mistakes
like this one..


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[ian mcallister]

Error:
User Error
Please replace user and press Ctrl Alt Delete to reboot your machine.





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[Michael Mattias]

Somehow I don't think this is about paintbrushes and artists.

It's more like keeping one's crayon inside the lines.

MCM
(No, Borje, you're not going to live this one down any time soon).

[Borje Hagsten]

Scary thought. If the compiler could read what's left of my mind at 3 o'clock in
the morning, it would simply say "there's no hope" and commit GPF right away..


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[Jim Padgett]

You'd think that by now with GHz processors and PowerBasic
that the compiler would just read your mind and do what you
want , not what you say...


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[Lance Edmonds]

That is a known issue.... it is called "faulty programmer"

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[Borje Hagsten]

Forget it. TRIM$ is supposed to work that way, I see that now. Seems
I managed to use REMOVE$ on my brain there..


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[Borje Hagsten]

Discovered funny thing. TRIM$ trims away any character at end and start,
but using ANY to remove characters inside a string, it only handles up to
ASCII 127? Copy,paste and test following to see - result will be "Börje",
without leading/ending "ö". Should be "Brje"..

  LOCAL txt AS STRING
  txt = "öBörjeö"
  MSGBOX TRIM$(txt, ANY "ö")

Found this "feature" when trying to trim away strange ASCII 160 from
inside result in textbox with MS UpDown control attached to it. UpDown
formats values above 999 by inserting CHR$(160) as thousand separator.

Simple fix, use REMOVE$(txt, ANY "ö") instead - it works like expected..


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