double qoute for negative ascii value doesn't work about sbasm3

[sbprojects]

This is as designed. The .DB directive is added to have some compatibility with other, existing, assemblers. Adding the negative ASCII feature to this directive would break that compatibility.
Use the SB-Assembler V3 native .DA, .AS, .AT or .AZ directives instead of the .DB directive if you want to use the negative ASCII feature.

[SD45T-2]

I fully agree but than change the following on in the documentation:

'	The single quote preceding the ASCII character will return a 7 bit ASCII value of the character, all other bits remain 0. This is called positive ASCII.
"	The double quote preceding the ASCII character will return an 8 bit ASCII value of the character, with the MSB of the byte being 1. This is called negative ASCII and can be used to signal special situations, like bold text or end of string.

on the https://www.sbprojects.net/sbasm/expressions.php page. with the remark not to use with the .DB directive!!!

I needed this because the old assembler file had: DB 'C' + 80H since .DB 'C' + 80H is not a valid expression in SB-Assembler V3.
I now use .AS -/C/ which is a very clean syntax.

Kind regards,
Maarten Ossevoort

[sbprojects]

There is an exception mentioned in the documentation of the .DB directive. And indeed the .DB directive doesn't allow expressions, which also explained with the .DB directive. The .DA directive is the native data inserting directive. .DB was added for more compatibility with other assemblers.

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