I think an Example that uses the # symbol on page 61 of the FB3 Ref Manual may
answer your question much better than I can. Read the example carefully.

Joe Wilkins

keller wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>  you probably have more important things to do than answer my question, but
> I am curious about the way I call this toolbox function.
>
> FN BITTST
>
> I use it like this
>
> LOCAL FN PointerToBooleanString$(thePointer&,Length)'function just for
> debugging
>     poke @StringFromPointer$,Length*8'grab one byte for ever bit in the map
>     for offset=0 to Length*8
>         poke @StringFromPointer$+offset+1, FN BITTST(#thePointer&,offset)+48
>     next'zero is ascii 48, so this gives me a quick way to see binary
> END FN=StringFromPointer$
>
> What I am wondering is, what is the # sign for?
> Thanks.
> Anders
>
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