[Coco] OS9 HEX to DECIMAL conversion.

[coco at jechar.ca]

Thanks for the Info.

For my problem with HEX calculations I have found a solution
Involving breaking the number into 2 sets of three Hex digits and using 
FLOAT and FIX to convert to REAL for the Math and then back to Integer 
to PRINT USING H3.

I an ready to go on to the next step where I want to pass
parameters from the command line to my program, so not having written 
basic09 code in 15 years I looked for a sample program from  the manual.

The program I found I have listed below.

PROCEDURE add
PARAMETER a,b
PRINT a+b
END

This is exactly as I wrote it as I used list add>/p
to send it to a file on my PC and then cut and pasted it into
this email.

But something is wrong as I get these errors.

add
PARAMETER a,b
           ^
ERROR #027
ERROR #051
Ready
B:


Help Please!

On 2018-05-19 20:39, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
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>> On May 19, 2018, at 3:30 PM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the Info it is giving me some ideas about what I may have
>> to do to deal with these calculations.
>> 
>> What URL is "Discord" at ?
>> 
>> On 2018-05-16 14:41, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>> Your error is due to pushing beyond the signed 16 bit limits of the
>> hex routines in BASIC09. It does work fine within 16 bit signed
>> values
>> (I put some screenshots of test source code, and a sample run, in
>> the
>> BASIC09 section on Discord).
>> On May 16, 2018, at 12:19 PM, James Jones <jejones3141 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> Tried it out. VAL("$61A80") gives an error 67, "illegal argument".
>> VAL("A80") prints as 2688., so VAL() returns a REAL, which I guess
>> it has
>> to for consistency with other BASICs. Hex PRINT USING output claims
>> to be
>> fine with printing a REAL, but perhaps the VAL() code for hex
>> doesn't
>> handle values that won't fit in an INTEGER. (What's 61A80? 400000 in
>> hex.)