Re: What is -1
Re: What is -1
- Subject: Re: What is -1
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:25:47 -0800
On 2/25/01 11:59 AM, "Brad Giesbrecht" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hello list,
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Simple question. I see this type of thing all
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the time.
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set this_text to characters --optionreturn
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(x + 1) thru -1 of this_text as string
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Is -1 the last item of a list or string?
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Precisely so. And -2 is the second-to-last, etc. It's extremely useful,
rather than having to to count all the items every time.
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Paul Berkowitz
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