Re^3: A Better Way to Find the Position of the Last Non-Whitespace Character in the Last Element of an Array.

I think $[ was originally intended to allow use of either 0-based or 1-based arrays, and then things kinda got out of hand. Sanity is slowly being restored.

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Re^4: A Better Way to Find the Position of the Last Non-Whitespace Character in the Last Element of an Array. by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Apr 29, 2009 at 15:05 UTC
See the Numerical Recipes series, IIRC. I seem to also remember that there was a 1-based vs 0-based set of changes going around, or perhaps it was in Numerical Recipes in Pascal. The general case of assigning any value to `$[` opens up many interesting problems :-) --MidLifeXis The tomes, scrolls etc are dusty because they reside in a dusty old house, not because they're unused. --hangon in this post	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: A Better Way to Find the Position of the Last Non-Whitespace Character in the Last Element of an Array.
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Apr 29, 2009 at 15:05 UTC

See the Numerical Recipes series, IIRC. I seem to also remember that there was a 1-based vs 0-based set of changes going around, or perhaps it was in Numerical Recipes in Pascal.

The general case of assigning any value to $[ opens up many interesting problems :-)

--MidLifeXis

The tomes, scrolls etc are dusty because they reside in a dusty old house, not because they're unused. --hangon in this post

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