Chr(0,#ENCODING_RAW)

[Flinx]

I expected Chr(n,#ENCODING_RAW) and ByteChr(n) to return the same result, but Chr(0,#ENCODING_RAW) returns an empty string. Is that correct?

[plouf]

how do you check it ? look same to me
dont forget strings terminated with a 0

edit
correct myself, Chr is a code point converter , so its 0 which is alreay an empty string (string terminate with 0 so zero is emptty string anyway

bytechr add the value to the string which is a single byte 0 since its an empty string, but because bytechr add the value blind it continue to add zeros
thereofore its a zero to a zero terminated string aka 2 bytes

this example show it

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For i=1 To 10
	strs = strs .. Chr(0,#ENCODING_RAW)
Next	
DebugPrint(StrLen(strs))

For i=1 To 10
	strs2 = strs2 .. ByteChr(0)
Next	
DebugPrint(StrLen(strs2))

[Flinx]

dont forget strings terminated with a 0

This is Hollywood, not C . In Hollywood strings can contain binary data, this would not be possible with zero terminated strings. From the manual:
"In many programming languages a zero character defines the end of the string. Not so in Hollywood. Hollywood allows you to use as many zero characters as you want in your strings."

[airsoftsoftwair]

Yes, I think the behaviour is wrong. I'll check, thanks for the report!