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Randy Walker wrote: Sat Feb 14, 2026 8:13 am Maybe just click on the image link in my OP and tell us how you feel, that it is a terrible idea not even worth discussing. Or is it you feel bantering over use of verbiage is more useful to everyone? Why all the hate?

That was a misunderstanding, obviously. No need to attack me ...

BarryG wrote: Sat Feb 14, 2026 7:26 am He knows that. He's asking for that feature to become part of PureBasic's IDE.

He wrote that he is missing it “in the JaPBe IDE”.

In the "Compiler Options" window, click on the "Constants" tab and check the "#PB_Editor_CreateExecutable".

I never understood why this is necessary. Why can't the constant #PB_Editor_CreateExecutable be always generally available, like most other built-in constants that start with #PB_ :?:

Randy Walker wrote: Sat Feb 14, 2026 4:42 am One thing I really miss in the JaPBe IDE is [...]

The JaPBe IDE was not created by and is not maintained by Fanataisie software.

I have a program of about 57KB (source code) I would like to share, but I can find no way to attach a file to a message.
Is there any other way than just inserting the 2000+ lines of code in. the message?

It's not possible to attach a file to a message on this forum. Either post the code inside ...

How about looking at the documentation instead of asking ChatGPT?

https://www.purebasic.com/documentation ... dures.html

PowerBasic function STRING$ -> RepeatChar()

PowerBasic function REPEAT$ -> RepeatString()

That's more elegant, thank you!

Hi!

Sometimes I need to create a long string by repeating a particular shorter string n times.
That's why I wrote a function RepeatString(n, s$) for my private standard library.
When s$ only consists of 1 character, the new string can be created very quickly by (ab)using LSet() , so I wrote a ...

Fred wrote: Wed Jan 28, 2026 9:22 am Removed #PB_String_InPlace

viewtopic.php?p=650813#p650813

If you want to write clean, future proof code, you should use AllocateMemory() for your memory buffers instead of misusing a string as a memory buffer that you can write to. If you think about it, THAT was the initial reliance on undocumented internals that you all have been using and it is ...

The problem is spreading this code as a "tip" around the forum, which will lead to people blindly using it thinking they are doing a clever optimization without understanding the details. And then if we do change something, we have to deal with the complaints again. And all that for an ...

Axolotl wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:18 pm Shouldn't there be a limit on the length of function names? (Just kidding.)

see https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/string/stringbytelength.html

Syntax

Result = StringByteLength (String$ [, Format])
For the optional 'Format' parameter, three possible values are mentioned.
But it is not explained which of them the default value is, if this parameter is omitted when ...

Please allow single underscores in numeric literals as visual separators for digit grouping in order to boost readability.
As an example, this is valid Python code: