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- Subject: Re: String confusion
- From: Choonster TheMage <choonster.2010@...>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:09:46 +1000
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:38 PM, David Collier <myshkin@cix.co.uk> wrote:
> In http://www.lua.org/pil/20.html
>
> I see "A program can create string literals and concatenate them. But it
> cannot extract a substring, check its size, or examine its contents"
>
> and yet if I have
>
> s="123"
> print( #s )
>
> I print 3
>
> How is this not a contradiction?
>
I believe the length operator was only added in 5.1; that version of
PiL was written for 5.0.
