PluriBASIC Update 6.0.6.302989

[Brian Alvarez]

There have been many updates and upgrades.

• Associative arrays are now working for PowerBASIC 32 bit, Oxygen 32 and 64 bits, Python, PHP, Java (Android and Jar) . Javascript still in progress.
• Associative arrays work with RESET (full array or individual item).
• Associative items can be passed as parameters BYVAL and BYREF.
• Associative items can be used with DDT syntaxes and other available native statements.
• Stacked function calls are more stable now for all target platforms.
• Stacked function calls now also work with Strings, Hex values, Oct values, Binary values, variables, user functions and System functions.
• Added support for functions returning UDT's for PHP and Python.
• Added support for 3rd party FTP clients to the IDE.
• Fixed a SSH bug when transfering Python scripts to a Raspberry PI.
• Fixed a bug macro functions that would prevent conversion.
• Fixed a bug macro functions that make it fail when several macro functions were invoked in the same line.
• Fixed a bug with VAL for PHP, Oxygen and Java, as well as added support for oct, bin and hex.
• Fixed #REPORT for PHP (Error)
• Fixed INPUT # for PHP's string variables (other data types are still in the work).
• Fixed a few miscompatibilities of older PHP (5.4) code for newer versions (PHP 7.4)
• Fixed a bug in FORMAT$ for PHP conversions.
• Fixed other various bugs.

Examples of supported syntaxes:

[COLOR=#9b59b6][B]STDOUT[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#8e44ad][B]DATE$.UCASE$[/B][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#9b59b6][B]STDOUT DATE$.TRIM$([/B][B]ANY[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#16a085][B]"0"[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#9b59b6][B])[/B][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#9b59b6][B]STDOUT DATE$.JULIAN[/B][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#9b59b6][B]STDOUT &HFDE0.GREGORIAN[/B][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#9b59b6][B]STDOUT TRIM$(DATE$.userformatting)[/B][/COLOR]

#DIM ALL
#COMPILE PHP with PLURIBASIC
'#COMPILE PYTHON with PLURIBASIC
'#COMPILE EXE with PBWIN
'#COMPILE EXE with OXYGEN
'#COMPILE jar with java
#OPTIONS X32 developer
#PROJECT "yourproject"


TYPE exampletable
    id CONDITION NOTNULL AUTOINC primary AS LONG
    username AS STRING
    password AS STRING
    sname AS STRING
    age AS LONG
    comment AS STRING
end type

FUNCTION json(byref u as UDT) AS STRING
    FUNCTION = UDT.json(u)
end function

FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG

    local tbl as exampletable

    ' The following syntaxes are all valid.
    STDOUT json(tbl)
    STDOUT tbl.json
    STDOUT udt.json(tbl)

END FUNCTION

Development continues steadily.

[Brian Alvarez]

I made a couple enhancements:

Since it is pointless to use LBOUND and UBOUND in Associative arrays, the engine will now throw a compilation error when attempted.

Also, Associative array enumeration was added, here's an example:

DIM Ar() AS ASSOCIATIVE
LOCAL Key AS STRING

Ar("oranges") = "Hello World"
Ar("apples") = "It's amazing"

FOR EACH Key IN Ar()
     STDOUT Key & " = " & Ar(Key)
NEXT

Outputs:

oranges = Hello World
apples = It's amazing

Added:
Forgot to mention that in order to be consistent across platforms, i made the keys case-sensitive.

[Brian Alvarez]

THREAD CREATE is now working again after the complete re-do of the statement handler.

Associative arrays can now use squared brackets when assigning or reading their values, for example:

Ar["oranges"] = "Hello World"
Ar["apples"] = "It's amazing"

Round brackets are still required when refering to its root. For example:

[COLOR=#8e44ad][B]FOR EACH[/B][/COLOR] Key [COLOR=#8e44ad][B]IN[/B][/COLOR] Ar()