From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d93b7c6dd17cbc81 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: Strings and reading from a file Date: 1999/05/12 Message-ID: <3739ce9a.5858380@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 477112304 References: <7han2q$jkp$1@news.iinet.net.au> <7hbnnl$rca$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7hc358$ha5$1@news.iinet.net.au> <37399913.BD928DD1@pwfl.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 926535451 207.214.211.187 (Wed, 12 May 1999 11:57:31 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:57:31 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >you get the length as one of the returned >parameters Actually, you get the last index, which is numerically equal to the length in the particular case that the first index is 1. It's a dangerous habit to start assuming Last = Length.