[Gambas-user] String[].Extract not behaving as expected

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 04/12/2014 02:50, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> On 12/03/2014 07:59 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>> Obviously, "myStrings.Extract(2, -1)" extracted all elements from the
>>>> specified Start to the end of the array, not just one element from the
>>>> specified Start.
>>>>
>>>> "myStrings.Extract(2, -2)" gives an "Out of bounds" error.
>>>>
>>>> So, I guess my question should be, what is the intended behavior?
>>>>
>>>>
>> The doc is false. -1 means all elements until the end, and other
>> negative values have no meaning.
>
> That makes sense. Thank you for confirming.
>
> But, I cannot correct the documentation. The only Markdown Syntax I see
> for that page is, "--> /comp/gb/boolean[]/extract", and I have no idea
> what to do with that.
>

It's a symbolic link to another page. Yes, the wiki can have symbolic links!

In other words, all Extract() documentation pages point at the Boolean[] 
one. This is that page that must be fixed.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini