OPTION BASE 1

[bugs]

I am not saying that it is difficult - but in a loop to place the words in an array. I would need to add 1 to the array index.
So then, a human asked to remember the position of the word "fox" could get the right answer by typing "4".
Either that or I could store them in the array starting at position 0 but would have to subtract 1 from the human's input.
This is a simple example - it can get more complicated with rectangular tables and is probably why Excel uses base 1 for its Row, Column addressing.

[cicciocb]

I am not saying that it is difficult - but in a loop to place the words in an array. I would need to add 1 to the array index.
So then, a human asked to remember the position of the word "fox" could get the right answer by typing "4".
Either that or I could store them in the array starting at position 0 but would have to subtract 1 from the human's input.
This is a simple example - it can get more complicated with rectangular tables and is probably why Excel uses base 1 for its Row, Column addressing.

Still the same question : why you must add or subtract 1 ?
You can simply ignore that the position 0 exists and that's all

example

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A$="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
dim arr$(9) ' the message contains 9 words - the array contains the elements from 0 to 9
for z = 1 to 9
  arr$(z) = words$(a$, z)
next z
for z = 1 to 9
  print arr$(z)
next z

[bugs]

Yes - I see that you can do it that way for the simple example. I would have to rake back through years of VB programs to find the ones that gave me problems.
For now - you win.
But "fox"is still the fifth element in your array...

[cicciocb]

Yes - I see that you can do it that way for the simple example. I would have to rake back through years of VB programs to find the ones that gave me problems.
For now - you win.
But "fox"is still the fifth element in your array...

Doesn't matter, I can simply implement the option base 1 ignoring the first element; 'fox' will always the fifth element but the first will be simply inaccessible.

What I want say is that is not the option base 1 the point but is how you write into the arrays

It is not question to lose or win but I cannot find a valid reason that justify

[Fernando Perez]

Mon dieu, how bored we are..
Do we have the family visiting, with their children, for vacations?
I'm sorry I brought this thread up, I appreciate Bugs' support and I'll end triumphantly by saying: "Eppur si muove"

[cicciocb]

Implemented in version 1.50.7