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: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:08:25 -0400
hhas said:
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.
Now there's a true statement if ever one was made.
On 1/5/06, Shane Stanley <
email@hidden> wrote:Let me try that again with better formatting...
On 6/1/06 1:54 PM, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:
> No, he didn't say that at all. He said quite the opposite. "The LAST
doesn't
> [compile to the same thing], but is usually expanded ..." The
LAST one is the
> one that gets expanded. If you go back to the list,
you'll see that the LAST
> one is also the SHORTEST one: "text x thru
y".
>
But he also said:
>> text (character x) thru (character y)
>>
>>
which is a shortcut for:
>>
>>
text x thru y
>>
Is that not contradictory?
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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