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On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 10:04:37 -0700 (PDT), Eric Douglas
<e.d.programmer@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 11:19:55 AM UTC-4, Arne Vajh=C3=B8j wrote:
>>=20
>> java.lang.String.substring() is one noticeable example of exclusive end.
>>=20
>> It may be worth noting that .NET System.String.Substring(),
>> C++ std::string::substr() and PHP substr() all chose length.
>>=20
>> Arne
>
>substring is a fun animal.  I'm used to start position, length from other l=
>anguages then we get to java with start index, end index.

What make it 'click' for me is when I realized that where other
languages use {start,len}, Java convention uses {start,start+len}.