Re: Attempting to read past end of strings

From: Bruce Roberts (ber_at_bounceitattcanada.xnet)
Date: 03/29/04

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    "John Tserkezis" <jt@techniciansyndrome.org.invalid> wrote in message
    news:4064bd72$0$30592$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...

    > But that's the issue here. It *WAS* defined. Under TP, reading past
    the
    > 'end' of a string returns an empty character. It was an easy way to tell
    if
    > the index was part of the string (would return the character at index), or
    > nothing if was past the end.

    This isn't my recollection of TP. My memory is that the sequence

        s := '0123456789';
        s := 'abcd';
        s2 := s [10];

    would result in s2 = '9'.

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