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Re: 0-based Indexing

• Posted by dm31 at uow.edu.au Jul 18, 2003
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>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.
>
>jbrown

Please note that I *DID NOT* say 'int x[255]'

I said using a 1byte integer for the *INDEX*

eg,

unsigned char index
long x[256]

then using index as the 'index'

there is a big difference in what I said, and what you 
presented :>