Interesting compile error

[bobalooie]

Which version of QB64-PE are you using:

DIM SHARED AS STRING segment(1).

REDIM _PRESERVE segment AS STRING.

REDIM _PRESERVE segment * 57 AS STRING.

The latter two lines are completly wrong, that's not the way how array (re)dimming works. If I paste the above lines into the IDE I immediatly get syntax errors and arn't even able to start compiling the code.

4.1.0.

Yes, I see that the redim dimension is missing in what I typed. My bad, it was late for me. I didn't copy the code. In the program the dimensions are there.

Initial declaration:                     DIM SHARED AS STRING wires(20), filename, segments(1) 

Doesn't cause compiler errors:    REDIM _PRESERVE AS STRING segments(iy)

Causes compiler errors:              REDIM _PRESERVE AS STRING * 57 segments(iy)

The point was that redimming as a fixed length string resulted in the compiler errors, but the IDE didn't flag that something was amiss.