Bug? Neither IDE nor compiler detects the invalid string declaration: Private strMsg as string=""Hello world"

[toby]

Private strMsg as string=""Hello world"  'I meant to type "Hello world"
log(strMsg) 'Empty string is printed

As shown, there is an extra double quote, by mistake, at the beginning of the text. And both IDE and compiler ignore Hello World" part once they reach the second double quote thinking it's an empty string.

 

[drgottjr]

not ignored; doesn't compile here...

 

[toby]

not ignored; doesn't compile here...

It's strange. My screenshot shows that my B4A IDE behaves differently from yours. I'm using B4A 13.10 on 64-bit Windows 11, by the way.

 

[toby]

test project attached

 

[toby]

I've finally figured out how to reproduce

Step 1. Declare a valid string.

Private strMsg as string="Hello world"

Step 2. Insert a double quote anywhere in the above string:

Private strMsg as string="Hell"o world"

IDE will happily accept it without further validation while compiler would truncate the string at the insertion point. The above declaration will cause strMsg to contain "Hell" instead of expected "Hello World".

 

[Erel]

Fixed for the next update.