[Gambas-user] BUG in using WRITE #hFILE

[Rob]

On Saturday 12 February 2005 13:09, njmurphy1 at ...734... wrote:
> WRITE #output_file, page_str
> 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:
> PRINT #output_file, page_str
> I think this is a bug in Gambas.  Or am I missing something?

I think you actually mean to be using PRINT, not WRITE.  From the 
WRITE documentation,

"If Expression is a string, you can specify a length that 
indicates the number of bytes to write. If no length is 
specified for a string, it is directly written to the stream 
just before the string data."

WRITE is meant for writing binary representations of variables 
out to files, to be subsequently read using READ.  So the 
"trash" is actually a binary integer representation of the 
length of the string.  I'm curious: what led you to choose WRITE 
even though PRINT was doing what you wanted it to do?

Rob