Robert, Robin,

We/"Certainly I" thank you.  Now I know why I've encountered some of the
problems that I have in the past.  I was always able to "resolve" them; now I
know I didn't even have to "have" them.  I can't imagine where I picked up such
a bad habit.

Joe Wilkins
alias "Mr. Wilkins"  <grin> Oh! those aching bones! and that misbehaving
eyesight!

Robin wrote:

> >> Are you then saying that :
> >>
> >> DIM aStr$;14
> >>
> >> isn't good anymore either?
> >
> > It's not so much "not good" as "very risky", as you are assigning 14 bytes
> > of memory (before the contents run into whatever follows) to a string that
> > the runtime will happily fill with 256 bytes.
> >
> Sorry, I should have explained that better.
>
> The reason it is risky is that if you omit the # characters from a string
> DIM, FB makes it the default DIM (255 chars). Thus
>
> DIM aStr$;14
>
> Is actually:
>
> DIM 255 aStr$;14
>
> while the ;14 forces FB to offsets the start of the next variable to a mere
> 14 bytes past the start of aStr$. Hence the risk.
>
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