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Subject: Re: Inclusive or exclusive array
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:58:52 -0700 (PDT), Eric Douglas
<e.d.programmer@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Friday, August 2, 2019 at 1:48:53 PM UTC-4, Scott wrote:
>> >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}.
>
>It's also the 0-base vs 1-base.
>If you want to parse the "DEF" out of "ABCDEFG" it could reference as (4,3) or (3,6)

I haven't seen 1-based indexing in a very long time. Not since I last
touched BASIC I think.