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I wrote a QBasic program (.bas) that runs fine inside the QBasic 4.5 interpreter but fails to compile (.exe).

One (1) severe error is given indicating "expression too complex ??? I have tried al sorts of modifications using subroutines and rewriting expressions but problem could not be fixed so far.

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Pleun Troost
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I think this is what I get also on my SearchFile% function.
It's stopping the compiler build an exe, but it runs fine.

-Stu

See if you can perform the computation in stages.  Use some intermediate variables.  A few little chunks are more managable than one huge chunk.
For instance a+b* 123-SQR(72+4^a)*LOG(b)*(23^a ----1)
could be split up as follows:

temp1 = (72+4^a)
temp2 = (23^a ----1)
temp3 = SQR(temp1)*LOG(b)*temp2
answer = a + b*123 - temp3
And there you have it.  Same answer.  Just pay attention to order of operations.