I use the Powerbasic wordfile and I find that if have a comment which includes the word 'sub' and an open bracket character somewhere in that line, that comment line shows up in the function list. for example, if I write

For X& = 1 to 10
'This comment will show up in the function list because I used the word sub and then used this ( open bracket.
next x

It's a bit annoying and I'm wondering if there is an easy fix? I understand the Regex would have to be altered, but I'm certainly no expert on Regex's, but figured somebody here might be able to assist. I also find that if I have an actual Sub, it won't recognise it unless I also put brackets after it, even when there are no parameters. I'm used to that and put them in my code, but it is a bit annoying if I'm getting code from elsewhere.

Thanks Mofi, yes Pbasic.uew. Whilst I understand the basics (no pun intended) of Regex, I'm certainly no expert on the Syntax, so it's a bit tricky for me. I tried merging some things from the VB wordfile and QuickBasic wordfile, but it didn't work as intended. The ' character CHR$(39) or 27h is used to show a Comment, so anything past that up to the end of line CRLF is intended as a comment and should be excluded from being parsed further by the Regex. The keyword REM is also used exactly the same, though I prefer the apostrophe '.

PowerBasic is an incredibly powerful and fast language. Most programmers look down on any BASIC, but PB is very different and right up there in terms of power, speed and executable size, you can even intermix inline Assembler. It has a Console Compiler version (PBCC) which is great for quick and dirty stuff and the full GUI version (PBWIN). The two use the same syntax for everything that they are able to do (obviously PB Win does more, so has more commands). The built-in string functions especially are extremely useful and super fast. It's a pity the guy who wrote it (who also wrote Turbo Basic and sold it to Borland) passed away a year or so ago. I love the language, but it has a terrible IDE, 20 years out of date (he obviously concentrated on the language, not the IDE!), so I write my programs using UE and then swap to PBCC or PBWin to do the compiling - I'd likely be better off with Ultra Studio, but that's another matter! For PB Win I use Firefly GUI designer, which has a much better IDE than PB's, though I still use UE for the heavy coding parts.

The PowerBasic Help files have been replicated online here (PBCC) http://www.powerbasic.com/support/help/pbcc/index.htm and here (PBWin) http://www.powerbasic.com/support/help/pbwin/index.htm I'm not aware of a specific list of commands, though they are all there on those pages, just not in a set list. The SUB and FUNCTION are the commands that get messed up, but as a comment line, it should be ignoring them anyway! It also displays the "DECLARE xxx SUB / Function" in the F8 list, but that's not really much of an issue. I can't expect you do to anything, but whatever you can do would be appreciated.

The examples for the REM statement is -
x% = 10 : REM This is a comment
y% = 20 ' This is another form of comment
! MOV EAX,"ABCD" ; An Inline Assembler comment (The ! at the start means it's an inline assembler line)

Thanks for anything you may be able to offer

Wow, thanks Mofi. I'll try that and let you know how it goes. I think a flat list would suit me fine, I just found it annoying than I couldn't mention the word 'Sub' in a comment that had a ( , without it showing up in the Function list. I previously didn't know what 'flavour' of Regex that UE used, or that I could use Perl Regex's so (relatively) easily with the latest versions, so that could be quite useful for future use. I have been thinking about getting JGSoft's Regex Buddy and Regex Magic for some time, so I might see if work will fork out for it, now that I know I can use Perl Regex's that Regex Buddy and Magic support.