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johngill
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Joined: 22/09/2020
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: 12:07pm 17 Nov 2020

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Hi all,

I think there might be a bug in the string$ function - or I'm being a numpty, which is equally plausible.

Typing in:
print string$(1,35)

it displays:
#

Which is correct, # is the character that has ascii value 35.

But typing in:
let a = 35
print string$(1,a)

if gives me an error - "Expected a string"

Any ideas what's going on?

thanks

John

johnd
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Posted: 12:15pm 17 Nov 2020

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Yeah, this looks like a bug. �A work around would be:

let a$ = chr$(35)
print string$(1,a$)

or

print string$(1,chr$(35))

Cheers
Edited 2020-11-17 22:16 by johnd

matherp
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Joined: 11/12/2012
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Posted: 12:37pm 17 Nov 2020

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Not a bug but perhaps the manual could be clearer

The value can either be an ascii literal (not a variable) or a string which can be a variable

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