Numeric access to char[]

[Derek Parnell]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:33:53 +0200, Peter Thomassen wrote:

> 
> Okay, nearly understood. But doesn't [0..1] produce two items, namely [0]
> and [1]?

For semantics of a slice specification is that the slice starts with the
element indexed by the first index and extends to all the elements up to
but not including the second index. Thus [0..1] means a slice containing
element[0] only, and [4..7] means element[4], element[5], and element[6] is
included in the slice, but not element[7]. To get all the elements except
the last element we can use [0..$] 


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24/08/2006 1:01:28 PM