Subject: Re: Why Doesn't Substing Work From: Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:45:58 -0500 (EST) |
At 1 Apr 1998 15:58 -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: > 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. Something's wrong somewhere. Section 8.5.9.7 of the DSSSL standard says: (substring string start end) Returns a string formed from the characters of "string" beginning with index "start" (inclusive) and ending with index "end" (exclusive). The arguments to substring should be a string, a number, and a number. Regards, Tony Graham ======================================================================= Tony Graham Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Phone: 301-315-9632 17 West Jefferson Street, Suite 207 Fax: 301-315-8285 Rockville, MD USA 20850 email: tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ======================================================================= DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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