OpenEuphoria

Re: Eu vs perl, strings

• Posted by "Pete King, Spectre Software" <pete at THEKING29.FREESERVE.CO.UK> Dec 08, 1999
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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 16:54:28 -0600, Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> wrote:

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Cuny, David at DSS <David.Cuny at DSS.CA.GOV>
>To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 3:19 PM
>Subject: Re: Eu vs perl
>
>
>And the annoying crashes caused by out-of-bounds testing of sequences is ,
>well, annoying. I fear that adding these functions as include files will
>result in slowing down Eu to the point it is unusable, so imho they should
>be part of the core. Also,, printing things in Eu isn't all that easy, i
>have lines like this fairly often:
>
>puts(1,datastr1[3] & "   " & sprintf("%d", charvalues[datastr1[3] - 64] ) &
>"\n")
>
Here is a better way of expressing that:
printf(1,"%s   %d\n",{datastr1[3],charvalues[datastr[3] -64})

With printf and sprintf you can tag multiple values into the statement if
you use a sequence.