[Gambas-user] What's happening with True and False string conversions?

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 28/05/2021 à 23:30, John Anderson a écrit :
> Either I haven't had enough coffee today,  or Gambas is doing something 
> weird, or ??.
> 
> This is Gambas 3.16.90 May 27 2021 build - just updated from PPA this 
> morning.  On Linux Cinnamon 20.1
> 
> There is something confusing going on here - I can print True or False 
> expressions directly from Print keyword, and I get "True" and "False" 
> output strings as expected.  But if I try to print more than one Boolean 
> expression per Print line: when I expect a "True" I just get a "T".  And 
> False starts becoming nothing - just empty string.  CStr(expression) is 
> weird too.
> 
> Screenshot, system info, simple demo code and project are attached.
> 
> What the heck?  Am I driving off into the weeds here?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -John
> 

You must be careful with the functions that use localization and those 
who do not.

Str(), Val() and Print use localization.

CStr() and automatic conversion do not.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini