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How about making it available for other users?


Not sure this would be of use to anybody, but here it goes:


; Encode check methods
#ENCODING_CHECK_SLOW = 0
#ENCODING_CHECK_FAST = 1

; Identifies if the encoding of a file is UTF8 or ASCII
; by means of scanning the entire file or just the ...

Thank you very much for this release Fred and team.

Hi there,
IMHO everything is described in the help section for the command ReadStringFormat(). Please pay particular attention to the remarks section.


You're right, I had a completely wrong idea of what ReadStringFormat() does, this comes in part because I wrote a library to manage files a ...

You need to write the BOM label, then it will be read.
WriteStringFormat()
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?p=478874
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?p=617388#p617388


Thanks for replying.

Problem with BOM is that I receive files from 3rd parties and they sometimes ...

ReadStringFormat() seems to be unreliable, is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong? Can someone else confirm?

If the below code is run:


Define string.s="9.9.9.9,áéíóúñ,XX,2025"

Define file.i
Define format.i

file = CreateFile(#PB_Any, "test.txt", #PB_UTF8)
If file
WriteString(file, String ...

Fred wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 11:49 am Good catch, there was a race condition. Fixed.

Thank you so much Fred!

Are you really using version 15.10? Isn't that a bit ancient for PB? Or do you mean 25.10?

I use Arch with two monitors with multiple computers, Intel and AMD graphics cards (no Nvidia) and never noticed any problems with multi-monitor and the IDE, I think I can hook a 3rd monitor to one of the ...

I have noticed a few bizarre things about this issue.

Sometimes it causes compiled programs to segfault, but I can't reproduce it consistently it is very random.

When running a compiled program via sudo that calls another compiled program ("sudo program1" runs "program2") with no tty it fails 100 ...

Problem still happens with PB 6.30b6

PeDe wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 3:15 pm PB v6.30b5 arm64, Raspberry Pi OS (Trixie), P500

Aborted with -1 after 1300 runs. Then I inserted a delay(100) into the repeat loop, and the code aborted after 8752 runs.

Peter

Thank you so much for checking.

I can reproduce this in PB6.20, PB6.21 and PB6.30 beta 6 on Xubuntu18.04, Arch and Debian 12/13

The ProgramExitCode() function returns -1 at random, the shell program executes correctly, both stderr and stdout appear to be captured correctly however ProgramExitCode() throws a -1 at the exit code ...

Fred wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:43 pmFixed.

Thank you so much Fred, much, much appreciated.

No Bug.

Floats have only 24 significant bits, which means you can store integer numbers just until ~ 16 mio.
Your integer number needs more than 26 bits, so the last binary digits are lost during your calculation and the number (even the integer part) becomes inaccurate.

You can use Double, they ...

I do understand that the decimal part of floats can be iffy but the integer part failing like this looks way too iffy to me.


Define measure.f = 25.0

Define value.q = 60

Define result.f = 73713600.0

result + (measure * value)

Debug(result)

; Prints 73715104.0 (incorrect)




Define measureb ...

There has been some kind of regresion/bug in how the output to the console is handled in PB6.21

The following code in PB6.20 allows you (using the arrow keys) to move the console's cursor inside the console window without filling it with garbage:


EnableExplicit

#CONSOLE_CODE_CURSOR_UP = Chr(27 ...