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Subject:
STR function broken in 6.0 pp2
From:
Paul H Christidis <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Paul H Christidis <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:43:36 -0800
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Used the following commands to extract a substring:

:setvar indx 8
:setvar text "abcdefgh"
:setvar subt STR(text, indx, -4)
:showvar subt
SUBT =
:echo ![LEN(subt)]
0

According to the help text of the STR function, the above should have
assigned the string "efgh" to the variable 'subt'.  Instead it assigned a
'null' string to it.

Anyone else has encountered the above.

Regards
Paul Christidis

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