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Operators

When evaluating expressions in a programming language, it is important to understand the order of operations, also know as operator precedence. The following table describes Cubloc BASIC's operator precedence.

Operator Explanation Type Precendence
^ To the power of Math First
*,/,MOD Multiply, Divide, MOD Math
+,- Add, Subtract Math
«, » Left Shift, Right Shift Logic
<, >, ⇐, >= Less than, Larger than,
Less or Equal to , Larger or
Equal to.
Comparison
=, <> Same, Different Comparison
AND, XOR, OR,NOTBoolean AND, XOR, OR, & NOTLogic Last

Within each row in the table above, the operators are evaluated from left to right. Operators can be used in conditional statement as show below.

IF A+1 = 10 THEN GOTO ABC

Use parenthesis to explicitly control the order of operations in an expression.

When multiple operators are used, the expression will be evaluated in the following order:

1) Operator(s) inside parenthesis 2) Negative Sign (–) 3) Exponent (^) 4) Multiplication, Division, Remainder (*, /, MOD) 5) Addition/Subtraction (+,-) 6) Bit-wise Left Shift, Bit-wise Right Shift («, »)

Operators used in Cubloc BASIC may differ slightly from common mathematical operators. Please refer to the table below:

Operator Math Basic Example
Add + + 3+4+5, 6+A
Subtract - - 10-3, 63-B
Multiply X * 2 * 4, A * 5
Division / 1234/3, 3843/A
To the power of 53^ 5^3, A^2
MOD Remainder of mod 102 mod 3

When numbers of different types are mixed in an expression, the final result is cast to the type of the assigned variable.

Dim F1 As Single
Dim A As Long
F1 = 1.1234
A = F1 * 3.14               ' A gets 3 even though result is 3.525456.

Please be sure to include a decimal point(.) when using floating point numbers even if your computer's language setting uses a different character for its decimal separator.

F1 = 3.0/4.0                               ' Write 3/4 as 3.0/4.0 for floating values
F1 = 200.0 + Floor(A) * 12.0 + SQR(B)      '200 as 200.0, 12 as 12.0…

The And, Xor, and Or operators are used for both logical and bit-wise operations.

If A=1 And B=1 Then C=1 ' if A=1 and B=1 …(Logical Operation)
If A=1 Or B=1 Then C=1  ' if A=1 or B=1…(Logical Operation)
A = B And &HF           'Set the upper 4 bits to zero. (Bit-wise Operation)
A = B Xor &HF           'Invert the lower 4 bits. (Bit-wise Operation)
A = B Or &HF            'Set the lower 4 bits to 1. (Bit-wise Operation).

String can be compared with the = operator.

Dim ST1 AS String * 12
Dim ST2 AS String * 12
ST1 = "COMFILE"
ST2 = "CUBLOC"
If ST1=ST2 Then ST2 = "OK"            ' Check if ST1 is same as ST2.

When comparing Strings, Cubloc BASIC compares the ASCII value of each character in the String. Therefore, String comparisons are casesensitive; “COMFILE” does not equal “comfile”.

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cubloc/operators/index.txt · Last modified: 2016/04/14 11:07 (external edit)