Re: Print Statement with more than one comma in a row fails

[Lee <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/22/25 9:32 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 23/05/2025 à 03:24, Lee a écrit :
> > On 5/22/25 7:48 PM, Brian G wrote:
> > > I am not sure if it is a bug or a feature but if I put two commas in a row in a print statement, i get a syntax error.
> > >
> > > But i seem to think that a comma is a tab, and in the past you could do:
> > >
> > > print "a",,"b"
> > >
> > > to get a double tab, Am I wrong in expecting the print statement to perform that correctly?
> > >
> > > Same with
> > >
> > > print "a";;"b"
> > >
> > > which does include two spaced, but
> > >
> > > print "a";;;"b"
> > >
> > > is a syntax error
> > >
> > > I think this worked at some point in the past...
> >
> > I get a syntax error on all three Print statements with Gambas 3.20.
> >
> > On Gambas 3.18, I get "Unexpected ','" for the first and "Unexpected ';'" for the third. The second works.
>
> I don't know what you are talking about. This syntax has not changed since Gambas 1.0.
>
> Print A,B -> prints a tab character between A and B
> Print A;;B -> prints a space between A and B
> Print A;B -> prints nothing between A and B
> Print A; -> do not print the newline character after A
>
> Everything else should raise a compiler error.
>
> Regards,

My mistake. I copied the Print statements from Brian's email. There are two spaces between the Print statement and its 
arguments, and the second one is a NO-BREAK SPACE (UTF-8: 0xC2 0xA0) which the editor apparently didn't recognize.


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Lee

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