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Re: Subscript of negatively-subscripted array element gives incorrect result

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Subscript of negatively-subscripted array element gives incorrect result
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:28:54 +0000
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On Mar 25,  7:56pm, Jonathan Hankins wrote:
}
} I am getting different results taking a substring of the same array element 
} when I index it negatively than when I index it positively.

At first glance, it appears to be the case that positive-indexing returns
a scalar whereas negative indexing returns a one-element array.

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- Subscript of negatively-subscripted array element gives incorrect result
  - From: Jonathan Hankins

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