[Gambas-user] mid$

[Marius Mauch]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:03:53 -0500
Rob <sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...> wrote:

> On Monday 06 December 2004 17:26, scatman wrote:
> > myString = "help me to understand mid String in gambas"
> > print mid$(myString, 4)
> > gambas shows me.
> >  me to understand mid String in gambas
> > but in the manuel
> > print mid$("Gambas",4)
> > says bas
> 
> In each case, the result of the function is the input string 
> starting at the 5th character (in Gambas, you count from 0.)  So 
> it's pretty consistent.  What did you expect the function to 
> return?

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding something, but in one case we drop
"help" (4 chars) and in the other case we drop "Gam" (3 chars), I'd
guess the manual is wrong then if we start at index 0.

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