put byte value into a string

[cotralis]

I have made an decrypt routine. if i us a msgbox to display the result then the function works. When i want to put the result in an variable i got an error

how can i solve this problem


data() = Crypto.Decrypt(PassPhrase,secret())
Msgbox(bit.BytesToString(data(),0,ArrayLen(data()) ))
a=(bit.BytesToString(data(),0,ArrayLen(data())))

[agraham]

Try removing the outmost parentheses surrounding the expression - for some reason in some circumstances the B4ppc parser doesn't like them

Originally Posted by cotralis

a=bit.BytesToString(data(),0,ArrayLen(data()))

[cotralis]

that is the solution for my problem

thank you for your quick reply

[Erel]

The parser treats expressions wrapped by parentheses as numeric expressions and therefore fails in this situation.

a = (b & c) 'ERROR
a = b & c 'OK
a = (5 + 2) 'OK

[moster67]

Just out of curiosity - Is this by design (because Basic4PPC is weakly typed)?

Could this be avoided if we had to declare all our variables indicating also the datatype?

Rgds,
moster67

Originally Posted by Erel

The parser treats expressions wrapped by parentheses as numeric expressions and therefore fails in this situation.

a = (b & c) 'ERROR
a = b & c 'OK
a = (5 + 2) 'OK

[Erel]

This is by design. Yes, if Basic4ppc was strongly typed this assumption would not have been necessary.