Re: Why Doesn't Substing Work

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:51 PM 4/1/98 -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>Using Jade 1.1 and SP 1.3, I'm having trouble getting the substring
>function to work. In one test, it always returns a null string, even for
>this test:
>
>(substring "abcdef" 2 2)
>
>Which should return "bc" I think.

Never mind. 

I just realized that the second argument is not a length but the character
that is the last character of the substring. Too many years of Rexx and
Perl programming.

Cheers,

E.
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