[Gambas-user] Question on ByteArray > 63 elements

[wally]

On 01/28/2014 01:05 PM, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, wally wrote:
>>> Le 26/01/2014 18:03, wally a ?crit :
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> i need to write more than 63 Bytes to an Byte[] in a structure.
>>>>
>>>> How to do this job ?
>>>>
>>>> mini example attached
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thank you wally
>>>>
>>> Since revision #6110 the number of elements in the array constructor
>>> operator ([ ... ]) is now only limited by the maximum function size,
>>> which should lead to about 32000 elements, depending on what you put in
>>> your array.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> -- Beno?t Minisini
>> Benoit,
>>
>> may you please explain what the "maximum function size" is and which
>> limits to take care here.
>> If possible as an example.
>>
>> and another maybe also silly question concerning:
>>
>> http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb/string/byte?v3
>> http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb/string/pos?v3
>>
>>
>> DIM iInd AS Integer
>>
>> FOR iInd = 1 TO 6
>>     PRINT String.Pos("Beno?t", iInd); " ";
>> NEXT
>> PRINT
>>
>> 1 2 3 4 5 7
>>
>>
>> What does this function do ?
>> (I recall "POS" as find position of string inside another string)
>>
>> "Returns the position of the character of index _Index_ in the string."
>> isn't the position of character in a string already the index ?
>>
> The example above shows you that it isn't. The i-circonflexe in Benoit
> (sorry, my keymap is ASCII-only) is a wide (multi-byte) character and this
> is the difference between the position of a character in a string and the
> plain index into the string (as an array of bytes).
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
@Tobi,

thank you, now it's pretty clear :)

wally