Char[] confusing

[grauzone]

Qian Xu wrote:
> Lutger wrote:
>> s[4] means the fifth element of s[]
>> s[0..4] is a slice from the first to the fifth, but not including the 
>> fifth element. The last element in a slice is always one past the end 
>> of that slice.
> 
> Thank you both.
> I have to do math in mind in order to keep my code correct ;-)
> 
> 
> IMO, it does not make any sense.
> s[start..end]
> 
>   end - is neither the count of characters in the array slice,
>            nor the end index of the slice.
>         it is just the index after the real end character.
> 

Think of it as "everything in the string before this."