PRINT FORMAT TO ASSOC "bla" & "blabla"

[rikky]

Hello.

I have this nice little program, that seems to work.

DECLARE variable$ ASSOC STRING

variable$("bla") = "something"
variable$("blabla") = "something"
variable$("bla" & "blabla") = "something"

PRINT variable$("blablabla")
PRINT variable$("blabla" & "bla")
response:

something
something

Apparently you can combine all kinds of strings to the eventual string in your ASSOC variable.

But not so in the PRINT FORMAT:

Following works:

PRINT VAL("1") + VAL("1") FORMAT "%.2f" TO variable$("blablabla")
PRINT variable$("blab" & "labla")
response:

2.00
But the next doesn't.

PRINT VAL("1") + VAL("1") FORMAT "%.2f" TO variable$("bla" & "blabla")
response:

test.bac:19:0: error: unterminated argument list invoking macro "__b2c__hash_add_str"
 Rik.

[Pjot]

Hi rikky,

Well, you're ahead of me

As you may have noticed from the repo comments, I am in the process of changing the code for argument handling in statements. I already observed it can lead to problems in some circumstances.

But I did not reach to the PRINT argument handling yet, but I have done so just now and uploaded the fix to the fossil repo.

Interestingly, the problem did not occur in the Shell version of BaCon.

Thanks,
Peter