strings

[Hans Hagen <pragma@...>]

Hi,

The following is valid lua

a = "text"
b = a[3]
print(a[2])

but b as well as the print are nil. Is there a reason why
this is syntactically correct cq. does not map onto sub somehow?

I could not google info for this effect

Hans


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