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  1. Article: 14555 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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  3. From: fdc@sesame.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  5. Subject: Re: Array assignment problem
  6. Date: 27 Sep 2003 11:34:30 -0400
  7. Organization: Columbia University
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  17.  
  18. In article <Eu1db.229$3I6.194268280@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
  19. Jun Zhang  <nugulus@netscape.net> wrote:
  20. : fopen /read \%c phonelist
  21. : while true {
  22. : fread /line \%c record
  23. : echo "The line read in is \m(record)"    ; Got "5035 rootpass", fine.
  24. : void \fsplit(\m(record),&a)
  25. : echo "Phonenumber is \&a[0]"             ; Got "phonenumber is 3",
  26. :                                           ;  instead of 5035.
  27. : What's wrong?
  28. : 
  29. As explained in the documentation, the 0th element of an array contains
  30. the number of elements in the array.  The data elements begin at 1.
  31.  
  32. You can see what's in an array with "show array", in this case:
  33.  
  34.   show array a
  35.  
  36. - Frank
  37.