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... and save your data in the CSV file preferably in UTF-8 format.

Kiffi wrote: Sun Aug 03, 2025 7:31 pm
My edition is older

From the Stone Age! Cool.

chandler wrote: Sun Aug 03, 2025 1:38 pm So if you use an old version of PB with new Win 11 update. Program can't "open screen...."

It may depend on how old the PB version is.

Demivec wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 2:59 pm It does not search the replacements after they have each been made.

Yep! And I thank heaven for that! Otherwise, that function would be a whole mess, and could even produce an endless loop.

swhite wrote:Is this a ReplaceString Bug?

No.
'lcTxt' contains ",," 4 times, and each occurence of ",," is replaced with ",0,". So of course the result is ",0,,0,,0,,0,".

This is what I'm using now, since it covers all situations (spaces, multiple dots, dots at the start and end, dots in the path):

For windows, a full stop (period) can be the first character of a filename. If the first character is the only period in the filename then there is no extender ...

mk-soft wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 6:39 pm

Fred wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 10:58 am Windows doesn't support this, you can check in Explorer, the column 'type' will display nothing if you have a space.

I have to agree with Fred.

And what about Linux and macOS?

Procedure.s MyGetExtensionPart2(text.s)
Protected dotCount.i = CountString(text, ".")
If Not dotCount
ProcedureReturn ""
EndIf
ProcedureReturn StringField(text, dotCount + 1, ".")
EndProcedure


This is elegant, but not bullet-proof. Try this:
Debug GetExtensionPart("c:\test\.foo")
Debug ...

SMaag wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 12:49 pm Solved! Last Parameter in Prototype definition was missing!

So please correct the title of this thread (at least remove the word „bug“)!

This thread becomes increasingly unreadable.
Dear admins & moderators, please remove all the offtopic blah-blah from the thread!

Rashad's above code a bit simplified, without using API functions:


OpenWindow(1, -300, 0, 0, 0, "Not Needed", #PB_Window_Invisible)
OpenWindow(0, 1, 1, 115, 70, "xx", #PB_Window_ScreenCentered|#PB_Window_BorderLess, WindowID(1))
SetWindowColor(0, $9BD6F7)
ButtonGadget(0, 5, 5, 64, 24, "Exit ...

New version 2.06, 2025-07-25

Changed

• Improved Procedure ParseDateQ()

Looks good. Thanks for sharing!

idle wrote: Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:02 am Maybe it would be a good idea to have all libs with a version function for cases like this.

Shardik wrote: Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:12 am idle's example was already posted by Fred about 9 years ago...

Maybe it would be a good idea to include that snippet in the help.