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Re: Inclusive or exclusive array

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From Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject Re: Inclusive or exclusive array
Date Sat, 3 Aug 2019 21:32:09 -0400
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On 8/3/2019 1:40 AM, Scott wrote:
> 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.

Fortran uses 1 based array indexes.

Cobol may as well.

Wirth languages have explicit array index start.

It varies.

Even JDBC use 1 based indexes for parameters and columns.

Arne

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Inclusive or exclusive array Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2019-07-30 18:24 +0200
  Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-30 12:52 -0400
    Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2019-07-30 20:41 +0200
      Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-31 02:19 +0200
        Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-31 07:22 -0400
          Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-01 00:44 +0200
          Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-08-01 08:02 +0000
            Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-01 07:47 -0400
              Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-08-01 11:19 -0400
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-08-01 10:04 -0700
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-08-02 17:51 +0000
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-08-02 10:58 -0700
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-08-03 05:40 +0000
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-08-03 21:32 -0400
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 05:04 -0700
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-08-05 19:30 -0400
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-01 14:20 -0400
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-02 01:15 +0200
                Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-08-02 16:17 -0400
    IntStream.rangeClosed()   (was: Re: Inclusive or exclusive array) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-07-31 11:33 +0000
      Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-31 07:59 -0400
        Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 05:40 -0700
          Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-07-31 11:02 -0400
            Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 08:39 -0700
        Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-07-31 16:46 +0000
          Re: IntStream.rangeClosed() Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 10:16 -0700
  Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2019-07-30 23:21 +0200
  Re: Inclusive or exclusive array Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-07-30 19:43 -0400

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