In their own manual, melabs says that PBP does not support strings, and everybody here pretty much knows that. I'm just wishing/crying out loud that I didn't have to go learn another compiler all over! To the extent that pbp 'HANDLES' strings, I think it's more along the lines of supporting LCD's, and a serial port than strings themselves.

And, no, it's not just loading arrays, because what's loaded, needs to be UNloaded, and parsed, and trimmed, and concatenated, and compared, etc. etc. I must have looked at 7 or 8 different PIC basic compilers in the last several weeks, and then you get even more steamed up... IF THEY CAN DO IT, WHY CAN'T MELABS? Too hard? I love PBP, but on some jobs, it would just be much easier if there weren't all these ridiculous little for-next loops to do simple compares, TrimLeft, TrimRight, UpperCase, etc.

I'm just expressing a wish that we'd get some of these functions, but not really expecting it. I know that you can do in one command in pbp what takes 7 or 8 lines in other compilers... oh well. I'm all done bawling about it now - till next time.