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I’m trying to create a UDL for a dialect of BASIC. This dialect uses the dollar sign as a prefix for hex numbers.

In the Comment & Number section I have:

Prefix 2: $
Extras 2: A B C D E F a b c d e f

However this only works for numbers like:

$1
$2
$123

These don’t work:
$a
$A
$4b, $48, $46, $43, $40, $3d, $3b

What am I missing here?

Thanks

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23469/udl-and-hex-prefixRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 04:21:44 GMTMon, 12 Sep 2022 09:24:06 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to UDL and hex prefix on Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:27:30 GMT]]>@PeterJones said in UDL and hex prefix:
That has cracked it thanks. The ‘e’ issue was because I had

end sub

in Folding style 1 Close, I should have had

‘end sub’

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/79710https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/79710Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:27:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to UDL and hex prefix on Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:01:12 GMT]]>@Alan-Bourke ,

Per documentation here:

  • Prefix1 and Suffix2 only work with 0-9
  • Prefix2 only works with 0-9 and Extras1
  • Extras2 only works with 0-9 and Suffix1

To accomplish what I think you want, I would set

  • Prefix2 = $
  • Extras1 = A B C D E F a b c d e f
  • Operators1 = ,

This will make the comma an operator which doesn’t require spaces. Since comma is an operator in BASIC, this seems reasonable to me. And it allows the comma to be a list separator inside your list of hex numbers

DATA AS BYTE $7f, $82, $85
DATA AS BYTE $bb, $be, $c1
DATA AS BYTE $fe, $fe, $fe

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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/79708https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/79708Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:01:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to UDL and hex prefix on Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:41:13 GMT]]>@Ekopalypse
Thanks, I’ve done that and added ‘,’ in Suffix 2 so that lists of numbers work, however it seems to be having an issue with the letter ‘e’ …

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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/79704https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/79704Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:41:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to UDL and hex prefix on Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:42:44 GMT]]>@Alan-Bourke said in UDL and hex prefix:

$a
$A
$4b, $48, $46, $43, $40, $3d, $3b

If I understand your question correctly, add it to Extras 1 like
described here

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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/79703https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/79703Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:42:44 GMT