[Gambas-user] Val()

[Tim Dickson]

good old two's compliment.
Unless the int is unsigned, you don't normally have negative hex, so it 
probably expects it to be a signed short int/int

On 27/05/2021 08:12, Bruce wrote:
> On 27/5/21 4:26 pm, Bruce Steers wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 07:55, Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>>> On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 07:40, CD <claude.dessere at orange.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> why Val("&FFFF") = -1
>>>> and
>>>> why Val("&FFFFFFFF") = -1
>>>>
>>>> is it normal?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I is when you do it wrong
>
>
> or perhaps, maybe, could it possibly be just because one is a short 
> and one is a long.  So their both -1
>  ;-)
>
>
>>> you must put & at begining and end...
>>>
>>> Try this...
>>> Val("&FFFF&)
>>>
>>> oops  no quote..
>> Val("&FFFF&")
>>
>> BruceS
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