UDL and hex prefix

[Alan Bourke]

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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

[Ekopalypse]

@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

[Alan Bourke]

@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’ …

[PeterJones]

@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

[Alan Bourke]

@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’