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: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:44:39 +0000
Shane Stanley wrote:
> > You seem to have misread - I was addressing your comment about some
> > applications requiring users to write:
> >
> > text (character x) thru (character y)
> >
> > instead of:
> >
> > text x thru y
>
>You seem to have misread -- I made no such comments. I was referring to
>"text x thru y" vs "text from character x to character y".
I take it back, you merely misunderstood.
text from character x to character y
is just a synonym for:
text (character x) thru (character y)
which is a shortcut for:
text x thru y
The first two mean the exact same thing, so it makes not one jot of difference which way you write it. The last doesn't, but is usually expanded to the other form under the hood for the user's convenience - and where that expansion fails, you get the symptoms your original post described.
Anyway, apologies if my use of synonym #2 instead of synonym #1 inadvertently caused confusion. BTW, this is why I get tetchy about AS's obsessive love affair with syntactic sugar; there are times it makes it all but impossible for the average - or even well-above average - user to tell exactly what the damn thing's up to.
has
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