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[Darthfett]

Totally by accident I've found a new bug now, "--X" returns true when X > 0, same with "+-X".

Whoops. I updated the functions with an inner-loop check (which should only get evaluated a maximum of two times). Unfortunately, I can't simply skip the first character now, as if there are exactly two signs, it would return true unless I checked every single character, which would dismantle the algorithm. Instead, I'll simply check if there's a sign, and if it's the first character.

Sure, but i think the difference between using SubStringBJ and SubString is totally negligible comparing the use of SubString by itself though.
I mean cutting the string would be much more slower than this difference between the BJ and the native.

This is true, and it's the reason why I used the algorithm of checking the string in slices of 8. If I had any problems using the SubString function, I might use the BJ, but I don't. It starts at 0 like an array, and I understand it.

I think that 'sublen' is unneeded, i mean you can simply use 'i' instead.

That's what I was doing before the last update, but if a string was not a multiple of 8 in length, it would cause the function to try to evaluate 8 characters even if there were only 2 remaining. 'sublen' puts a limiter on the length of each substr.

Also i don't like this idea of cutting string, why not simply the whole string ?

[ljass]S2I("123456789123456789") == 2147483647[/ljass]

When you get large numbers that are longer than 8 (sometimes 9), it causes problems.

If you consider a string which have a length > 1 , that makes IsLetter as a no sense because of the existent of IsLetters

*sigh* fine!

 

[Troll-Brain]

Ah overflow, with the type integer it seems cyclic.
Max = 2^31 +1.
And if you increment it, it becomes - 2^31, then , -2^31 - 1 and so one ...
Where with floats we have weird results, because of this type i suppose, don't know so much about that.

But i wouldn't consider such integers/reals as valid though

Also i'm pretty sure you can forgive the variable 'sublen', but i'm to much lazy actually ot think about that, will probably post it later if I've found a way.