by L. Spiro » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:59 am
Programmatically speaking a char is just a signed byte.
Or rather, a byte is an unsigned char.
So char is just a number like a byte, but can be negative instead.
This was my earliest coding, and back then (6 years ago) I was thinking more in programming terms.
As it is known, I have begun remaking the entire project from scratch and this time through I am basically fixing all the tiniest mistakes I made in the original.
This would be considered one of those tiny mistakes.
The next release will treat the character type as an actual text character, complete with escape sequences for extended characters (for example, “\n” or “\xFF”).
The String Search has been redone as well and also allows escape sequences now, along with the additions of Wildcard and Regular Expression searches, and options such as matching case and whole word only.
L. Spiro