OpenEuphoria

RE: typecasts again

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Jan 10, 2003
• 477 views

Kat wrote:
> This line:
> 
> while sequence(TheWebPage[junk][1]) and match(" ",TheWebPage[junk][1]) 
> do
> 
> errors out with :
> 
> attempt to subscript an atom
> (reading from it) 
> 
> Since TheWebPage[junk] is a sequence, 
> TheWebPage[junk][1] is a sequence, where is it an atom??
> 
> Kat

I'm not sure I follow the logic in your last statement there.  Just 
because TheWebPage[junk] is a sequence doesn't imply that 
TheWebPage[junk][1] is also a sequence.  For example, if 
TheWebPage[junk] = "Some text" then TheWebPage[junk][1] = 'S', which is 
an atom (or integer).

-- Brian