Decimal to Hex Function return

[Henko]

Why does everyone like doing things the hard way?

Because the rest of the world is not as smart as you are, George .
Two specific issues where brought up. The question if sB has a HEX function was not among them.
Nevertheless thanks to remind us of the existance.
But no need to explicitely express your excellency (all spelled well?)

[Dutchman]

About function return-value as string:

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I struggled to figure this out myself a while ago. This really should have been explained in the documentation on the "Basic" page under "User Functions." (I pretty much only use the in-app documentation, but maybe this is already in the PDF version that gets updated by Dutch.)

I have added a note in the PDF-manual on page 15:
If the return-value is a string, then the function-name should end with '$'.
Example:

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DEF spaces$(n) ' return string with n spaces
a$=""
FOR i=1 TO n
  a$&=" "
NEXT i
RETURN a$
END DEF

[GeorgeMcGinn]

No need for accolades

The one benefit of learning to do it long-hand is if a language does not have the HEX statement.

One of TechBASIC's sample program had a serious bug because it was coded the hard way, and the only way I convinced him was to use his built-in HEX function!

I only mentioned it for our new members!

Why does everyone like doing things the hard way?

Because the rest of the world is not as smart as you are, George .
Two specific issues where brought up. The question if sB has a HEX function was not among them.
Nevertheless thanks to remind us of the existance.
But no need to explicitely express your excellency (all spelled well?)

[Speedbart]

Oh dear god how did I not see that - and I felt stoopid not spotting the % conversation - thanks / sorry!

[rbytes]

We all make mistakes like that. I keep discovering and rediscovering commands, handy subs and functions that I recall using and then forgetting.