[Gambas-user] BUG in using WRITE #hFILE

[njmurphy1 at ...734...]

Hi All
 I am getting my feet wet with Gambas.  I have a Database of stuff that is in 
html form.  I wanted to sort this stuff into a different order.  I got all 
this done but when I write it back to a file I have trash, either 2 
characters or 4, before the file that I am writing. Here is an example of the 
code that causes the problem:

DIM output_file as FILE
DIM page_str as STRING

page_str = <extract data and put in this var>

OPEN "/path/to/file" FOR WRITE CREATE AS #output_file
WRITE #output_file, page_str
CLOSE #output_file

this code produces a file that has 2 or 4 characters of trash before the file.  
I have checked and the trash characters do not exists, checking with watch 
variable or writing to a textbox, before the WRITE statement.  But if I use 
PRINT instead of WRITE it works just fine.  Like this:


OPEN "/path/to/file" FOR WRITE CREATE AS #output_file
PRINT #output_file, page_str
CLOSE #output_file

I think this is a bug in Gambas.  Or am I missing something?

Here is a list of the trash that is at the beginning of the files, if it will 
help.  It's not in any order.

a0 62 00 c0
dc 84
7a 7f 00 c0
f1 84
0f 96
4a ad
52 95
1f b7
26 8a 00 c0
3e 7c 00 c0
c5 99
6e a5



TIA
Joseph