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by BillJames
Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:09 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Integer/Floating Point Ranges and Precision
Replies: 1
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Integer/Floating Point Ranges and Precision

I looked in the user guide, dictionary, and searched the forums but I cannot find a discussion of number ranges or digits of precision. I understand that the language is typeless, but you would expect at least some discussion on this topic. I tried some testing on integers and was surprised to find ...
by BillJames
Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:36 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: How to create repeating character strings in Revolution
Replies: 1
Views: 3480

How to create repeating character strings in Revolution

Could someone explain why the following statements give different results: put format("%40c",space) into t40Spaces put format("%40c"," ") into t40Spaces put format("%40c",32) into t40Spaces put format("%40c",charToNum(" ")) into t40Spaces The last two statements do what I expect; puts a string with ...