Re: How do I delete the 1st three characters from a variable
Re: How do I delete the 1st three characters from a variable
- Subject: Re: How do I delete the 1st three characters from a variable
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:01:30 +1100
- Thread-topic: How do I delete the 1st three characters from a variable
On 5/1/06 10:45 AM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
> However, I'd consider _requiring_ this form a bit of a bug in the application,
> as it really should be intelligent enough to determine the start and end
> references ('character 4' and 'character -1' in this case) automatically.
>
> It is, after all, what users are led to expect will work.
Where are they led to expect that "text x thru y" will return a string and
not a list? Where else, apart from "text x thru y", does use of thru return
other than a list?
As far as I can see, the ASLG only documents the "text from ... to ..."
form. The shortcut's use of the term normally used to return lists only
causes confusion, IMO. It's too late, but I'd rather have seen the "text
from ..." form required everywhere; any shortcut should have avoided the
word through/thru.
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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