[SOLVED] Assignment between single quotes

[boddhi]

Hello,

Until PB version 6.01, I used to make some assignments such as :

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a='II'
b='MM'

but since version 6.02, a compiler error message appears: "Numbers between '' are limited to 8 characters" (in French : "Les nombres entre '' sont limités à 8 caractères").
The message refers to characters, not bytes.

Is this normal?
Note : Of course, I can make the assignments in another way, but why doesn't it work any more?
 

[infratec]

Yes, since 6.xx this is normal.

Reason behind: between '' is one ascii character allowed and not a string.

But I was also a bit confused because I compared sometimes MagicNumbers of file headers with 'PK' (for example)

And you are right, the error message is wrong:

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a = '1234'
a = 'II'

1234 are digits and less than 8

It should be:

The value between '' is limited to 8 bit

[boddhi]

Yes, since 6.xx this is normal.
Reason behind: between '' is one ascii character allowed and not a string.

Thanks for confirming what I suspected.
I had read in the documentation that many compiler bugs had been fixed since 6.02 and I suspected there was a link...

But I was also a bit confused because I compared sometimes MagicNumbers of file headers with 'PK' (for example)

Me too, I used it to read some header string data from binary files. It was very practical !

[infratec]

That's the reason, I would still like to see again "8 bytes" to compare it with a .q