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Johnny J

You don't need subtraction. You just need to learn addition of negative numbers... :-\

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ChandraRam

Are you saying VB is 1-based? :confused: Not as far as I know...

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Richard Deeming

VB's legacy string functions certainly are:

Strings.Mid Method (Microsoft.VisualBasic) | Microsoft Learn[^]:

' Creates text string.
Dim testString As String = "Mid Function Demo"
' Returns "Mid".
Dim firstWord As String = Mid(testString, 1, 3)
' Returns "Demo".
Dim lastWord As String = Mid(testString, 14, 4)
' Returns "Function Demo".
Dim midWords As String = Mid(testString, 5)

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ChandraRam

Well... arrays are 0-based, afaik. I would argue, though... when asked for the first letter of your name, do you say "R" or "I" :)

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Richard Deeming

They are now; but VB.NET still declares arrays by specifying the upper bound, rather than the length, because of the legacy syntax. :)

Arrays - Visual Basic | Microsoft Learn[^]

' Declare a single-dimension array of 5 numbers.
Dim numbers(4) As Integer

In VB6 and earlier, you could use:

Dim numbers(1 To 42)

which would create an array with 1-based indices. The lower bound was optional, and the default could be changed by using the Option Base setting, leading to confusing code with hard to find bugs.

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ChandraRam

Richard Deeming wrote:

The lower bound was optional, and the default could be changed by using the Option Base setting, leading to confusing code with hard to find bugs.

This is definitely a problem, I agree.

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BernardIE5317

rather amazing w/ a simple visual / graphical proof : "Can you change a sum by rearranging its numbers? --- The Riemann Series Theorem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0w0f0PDdPA[^]

Nelek

trønderen wrote:

I guess that pointing out in which ways would violate the rules of The Lounge.

That's why I just shared the video and said nothing else :rolleyes: :-D

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trønderen

Young software people of today believe that 0-based arrays is a law of nature, just like 1+1=2 (or possibly 11, in some interpreted, weakly typed languages). They never programmed in Pascal, Algol, Ada, Fortran, APL ... An aside: A Korean guy told me that in Korean culture, a person's age is 1-based (besides being based on a moon calendar): The first 12 months (/moons) of a baby's life, he is 1 years old. After completing one year, starting on the second, he is two. In older European prose it is not uncommon to see wordings such as "When I was in my fourteenth year", which means at age 13. Also, centuries are 1-based.

Gary Wheeler

Aw c'mon dammit... I'm just learning git and now you want to learn that?

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Roger Wright

Not surprising, since the snowflakes avoid anything negative, whether it involves reality or not.

Will Rogers never met me.

PIEBALDconsult

We are all snowflakes, hence the term.