Re: Why Doesn't Substing Work

Subject: Re: Why Doesn't Substing Work
From: Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:35:39 -0500 (EST)
At 2 Apr 1998 11:18 -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
 > At 11:45 AM 4/2/98 -0500, Tony Graham wrote:
 > >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.
 > >
 > >The arguments to substring should be a string, a number, and a number.
 > 
 > Right, but the second number is an index, not a length.  Thus:

Forgive me, it sounded like you were supplying a character (e.g. #\a)
as the second argument.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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