OpenEuphoria

RE: 0-based Indexing

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Jul 17, 2003
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On 17 Jul 2003, at 6:32, Matt Lewis wrote:

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> > From: gertie at visionsix.com [mailto:gertie at visionsix.com]
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> > BASIC and Pascal used the first byte as length. (It feels odd 
> > that RobC would use an example from Basic, and still not
> > implement CASE and GOTO.) So the string storage data did
> > actually start at zero offset, but not the string itself.
> > Naturally my gripe with Turbo Pascal is that it began a move 
> > to C strings, so one could not store a null in byte in the 
> > string. But then, DOS frowned on that too.
> 
> Actually, the BSTR (basic string--as used by VB and COM and prolly others,
> too) stores the length of the string in the four bytes preceding the data,
> but the pointer to the string points to the data.  Also, the string is
> unicode.

"used" , as in past tense.

Kat