[Gambas-user] An utility component for Gambas

Tobias Boege taboege at ...626...
Mon Dec 1 21:29:13 CET 2014


On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Lewis Balentine wrote:
>  >> Octal is normally not needed with Gambas. Do you have any use of 
> that? <<
> 
> Neither is "binary" best I can tell. It is still convenient to have 
> these tools available. One may not always be dealing with numbers 
> originating in Gambas or output targeting Gambas.
> 
> Hex$(), Dec$(), Oct$(), Bin$()
> 

Why not just mirror strtol() from the C library to Gambas then? It does
these things for all bases from 2 to 36.

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