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Phineas Freak
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"Line too long" error
« Thread started on: Sep 12th, 2013, 9:14pm » |
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I tried to compile a program that contains the following DATA structure:
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data "1", "2", "4", "8",
"10", "20", "40", "80",
"100", "200", "400", "800",
"1000", "2000", "4000", "8000",
"10000", "20000", "40000", "80000",
"100000", "200000", "400000", "800000",
"1000000", "2000000", "4000000", "8000000",
"10000000", "20000000", "40000000", "80000000",
"0"
And when compiler reached that line, it stopped with a "Line too long" error.
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Richard Russell
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Re: "Line too long" error
« Reply #1 on: Sep 12th, 2013, 10:36pm » |
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on Sep 12th, 2013, 9:14pm, PreciseTiming wrote:| And when compiler reached that line, it stopped with a "Line too long" error. |
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Not at all surprising - the message means exactly what it says! There is no benefit in trying to put a large number of items into a single DATA statement; change it to use multiple DATA statements as follows:
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data "1", "2", "4", "8"
data "10", "20", "40", "80"
data "100", "200", "400", "800"
data "1000", "2000", "4000", "8000"
data "10000", "20000", "40000", "80000"
data "100000", "200000", "400000", "800000"
data "1000000", "2000000", "4000000", "8000000"
data "10000000", "20000000", "40000000", "80000000"
data "0"
Both LB and LBB will be happy with that.
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Phineas Freak
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Re: "Line too long" error
« Reply #2 on: Sep 13th, 2013, 11:55am » |
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Well, should i dare to say that i didn't think about breaking it in multiple lines...? 
Liberty BASIC didn't complain about it so i though it might be a general incompatibility about long lines, not only for this particular case. Although that there are always workarounds...
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Re: "Line too long" error
« Reply #3 on: Sep 13th, 2013, 1:31pm » |
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on Sep 13th, 2013, 11:55am, PreciseTiming wrote:| i though it might be a general incompatibility about long lines |
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It's not a general incompatibility; LBB should very rarely complain about over-long lines.
The underscore line-continuation character is valuable when declaring a menu or a structure, when it's handy to be able to put each item on a separate line. It can also be useful when assigning a long string constant, such as help text. But I'm not a great believer in using long lines when it doesn't benefit program clarity.
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Re: "Line too long" error
« Reply #4 on: Sep 14th, 2013, 07:36am » |
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I should be more careful next time that i will use the line continuation...
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