bug in ':' (newline) (SOLVED)

[rikky]

Hello.

I'm running BaCon version 4.7 on Linux armv7l,
and I encountered what seems to me a bug.

Since I tend to forget a lot, I like to make remarks in the form of:

programline : ' remark
So here is my program:

string$ =  "blablabla"

string$ = REPLACE$(string$,"bla","bla" & "bla")  : 'compiles
string$ = "bla" & REPLACE$(string$,"bla","blabla") : 'also compiles
string$ = "bla" & REPLACE$(string$,"bla","bla" & "bla")  : 'does not compile
And here is my other program:

Q$ = CHR$(34)  : ' quote
BS$ = CHR$(92) : ' backslash
SQ$ = CHR$(39) : ' singlequote

string$ = "bla" & REPLACE$(string$,Q$,Q$ & SQ$ & Q$ & SQ$ & Q$) : 'does not compile
 Rik.

[Pjot]

Hi Rik,

Well spotted - you are right, this does not work. And it has never worked.

Parts in a line separated by a colon symbol ':' were sent straight to the statement parser. You example clearly shows that such part by itself needs tokenization first.

Miraculously, it seems to be fixed by simply passing the part of code to the current tokenize function (recursion).

With this fix, I was able to compile your examples. You can download the latest tarball with the fix here.

Thanks for reporting,

Best regards
Peter