[Gambas-user] why this could not be? error in runtime?
Matti
matti.eber at ...3240...
Sat Jul 29 15:12:14 CEST 2017
YOU complainig-shouting about a typo!
Am 29.07.2017 um 05:53 schrieb PICCORO McKAY Lenz:
> HEY TONY; ITS PICCORO; NOT PICARO! GRRRRR
>
> in the playground wprks perfectly, i not have 3.10, but in the job i have
> 3.1 and at my home 3.5
> its a bug in 3.9 and 3.8, *with 3.1 works perfectly in debian squeeze (very
> older but better)*
>
> 2017-07-28 21:02 GMT-04:00 Adrien Prokopowicz <adrien.prokopowicz at ...3029.....>
> :
>
>> Actually, his original code is correct. For me it runs without error in
>> the IDE using
>> the 3.10 development version, but the editor is indeed having trouble
>> matching the
>> parentheses.
>>
> me too, the edtor has some problems, when the ide made a word wrap, and i
> have thesame behaviour, parentheses does not matching correctly..
>
>
>> I also tried it on the playground (which also uses 3.10) and it works
>> fine : https://gambas-playground.proko.eu/?gist=97ed16795393aa3b689
>> 13025e5d2b83c .
>>
> tested, me too..
>
>
>> However the playground's editor does match the parentheses correctly. :)
>>
> jajaja excelent work!
>
>
>> Which Gambas version are you using ? There may be an old bug here.
>>
> 3.9.1 with some git patches..
>
> in the job i have 3.1 and at my home 3.5
>
> its a bug in 3.9 and 3.8, with 3.1 works perfectly in debian squeeze (very
> older but better)
>
>
>
> Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
> http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com
>
> 2017-07-28 23:46 GMT-04:00 Tony Morehen <tmorehen at ...3602...>:
>
>> It's difficult to say for sure what's happening without Piccaro's test
>> strings. However, 2 things do come to mind.
>>
>> First, according to Gambas doc, InStr(strinchar, ")", -n) does a left to
>> right search for ")", starting at -n characters from the end of
>> strinchar. So if Instr doesn't find ")", it will return 0, which, in
>> conjunction with the second -1, will cause mid to drop the last character
>> of strinchar. So to get the answer you want, use RInstr(strinchar,")").
>> which will do a right to left search for ")", starting at the end of
>> strinchar.
>>
>> Second, there may be a bug in gambas, or the documentation needs to make
>> clear what end of string means. This is best explained by example:
>>
>> Instr("(foo)",")",-1) returns 5
>> Instr("(foo)f",")",-1) returns 5
>> Instr("(foo)ff",")",-1) returns 0
>>
>> This means that Instr(s1,s2,-1) begins its search one character before the
>> last character of the string. So end of string actually means last
>> character of the string and the docs should make that explicit or there is
>> a bug if the intended meaning of end of string is the position after the
>> last character of the string.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-07-28 09:31 PM, Fernando Cabral wrote:
>>
>>> Piccoro, sorry for my previous information. Something was missing.
>>> In fact, both versions work the same:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> * strinchar = "test )after)r" positionlen = (InStr(strinchar, ")", -1)
>>> - 1) Print strinchar Print positionlen strinchar = Mid(strinchar,
>>> 1, positionlen) Print strinchar strinchar = "test )after)r"
>>> strinchar = Mid(strinchar, 1, (InStr(strinchar, ")", -1) - 1)) Print
>>> strinchar *
>>> Both print "test )after"
>>>
>>> - fernando
>>>
>>> 2017-07-28 22:02 GMT-03:00 Adrien Prokopowicz <
>>> adrien.prokopowicz at ...626...>
>>> :
>>>
>>> Le Sat, 29 Jul 2017 02:40:44 +0200, Jussi Lahtinen <
>>>> jussi.lahtinen at ...626...> a écrit:
>>>>
>>>> No... again. My initial mail was correct. It should be:
>>>>
>>>>> strinchar = Mid(strinchar, 1, (InStr(strinchar, ")", -1) - 1))
>>>>>
>>>>> But the IDE makes highlighting bug with the brackets.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jussi
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Jussi Lahtinen <
>>>>> jussi.lahtinen at ...626...
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm... sorry, no mistake... I will look closer.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Jussi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Jussi Lahtinen <
>>>>>> jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because the line makes no sense at all. Try to remove ")".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jussi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:55 PM, PICCORO McKAY Lenz <
>>>>>>> mckaygerhard at ...626...> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> in the following code:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> strinchar = Mid(strinchar, 1, InStr(strinchar, ")", -1) - 1)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> IDE said error invalid argument, but if i do:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> psotionlen = InStr(strinchar, ")", -1) - 1
>>>>>>>> strinchar = Mid(strinchar, 1, psotionlen)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> works, why?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> i wnat to remove the last occurence of a char but bybass some
>>>>>>>> possible
>>>>>>>> spaces/chars at the end of string
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
>>>>>>>> http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Actually, his original code is correct. For me it runs without error
>>>> in
>>>> the IDE using
>>>> the 3.10 development version, but the editor is indeed having trouble
>>>> matching the
>>>> parentheses.
>>>>
>>>> I also tried it on the playground (which also uses 3.10) and it works
>>>> fine : https://gambas-playground.proko.eu/?gist=97ed16795393aa3b689
>>>> 13025e5d2b83c .
>>>>
>>>> However the playground's editor does match the parentheses correctly. :)
>>>>
>>>> Which Gambas version are you using ? There may be an old bug here.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Adrien Prokopowicz
>>>>
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