Line Feed and ",," bug (*solved*)

[boriel]

Just one small question. How to make Line Feed with Print with ZXBC?
in Sinclair BASIC this worked:

Code:

Print "Line1" ' "Line2"

But in ZXBC the '-Character is used for REM, and ´ and ` are illegal characters for the compiler.

This was discussed in other thread I think. It was decided to use ' as a REM alternative, because it's widely extended and it's almost a standard (e.g. FreeBasic, Visual Basic, etc).
We concluded to use CHR$(13) instead. So use:

Code:

PRINT "Line1"; CHR$(13); "Line2"

instead.

It looks also like I stepped on a bug in release 809 (maybe in earlier versions too:

Code:

Print at 0,0;"Spectrum users to celebrate the",,"30th birthday of our Speccy.";

the double coma should leave one line free, but in fact it prints the character "3" at Position x=31,y=1, where it should be position x=0,y=2.

I will check it out. There were a complete PRINT work out some versions ago to fix a bug: Sinclair BASIC crashed upon exit or gave an error. Also it this change made the routine faster and shorter.

Update: It should print the "3" at x = 16, y = 1!!! (execute it in Sinclair BASIC). And yes, it's bugged anyway.