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in thread A Better Way to Find the Position of the Last Non-Whitespace Character in the Last Element of an Array.

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 :-)

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