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Re: 0-based Indexing

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jul 17, 2003
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jbrown105 at speedymail.org>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: 0-based Indexing


> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:33:38PM +1000, dm31 at uow.edu.au wrote:
> > 
> <snip> 
> > Also, for example. say I want to use 1 byte of storage as my 
> > index var. If I start at 0, I get from 0-255 different 
> > elements, whereas if I used 1-base then I could only get 1-
> > 255.
> <snip> 
> 
> Um, in C, int x[255] would give elements 0-254.
> 
> Not sure what language you are talking about.

Jim,
he is not talking about declaring an array with a '255', but using a BYTE to
hold the entire set of index values for an array 0-255. To declare such an array
he would write "int x[256]" of course.
-- 
Derek