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- From: chard@genghis.borland.com (Richard Nelson)
- Subject: Re: LENGTH and POS in TP 5.5
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.012309.756@genghis.borland.com>
- Originator: chard@genghis.borland.com
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- Organization: Borland International
- References: <7351@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:23:09 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- >Here is a problem with the LENGTH function in TP 5.5 that cost me
- >several hours of debugging. After discovering the source of the
- >problem, I investigated the POS function as well.
- > ...[stuff deleted]...
- >NOTE TO BORLAND: When you fix these and other problems, please
- >let use know, so we can determine whether your fix invalidates
- >our workarounds. Thank you.
-
- FYI, you can email to bugs@borland.com to report bugs.
-
- I'm reporting these as documentation bugs, although it does strike
- me that both functions should probably return type Byte, since the
- length of or position in a string is by definition within that
- range.
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