SPUG:Best One-Liners and Scripts for UNIX

[Creede Lambard]

From what little Basic I can remember, it's one based. However in Visual
Basic at least you can use the OPTION BASE keyword to change the "start"
of the array if you have a particular reason for doing so.

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 10:05, Brian Hatch wrote:
> > > > unshift @F, "(No zeroth field! first is #1)";
> > > 
> > > Are you nuts?  That was the whole point of using perl!  Of course
> > > the first field should be field #0.  Anything else is unperlish.
> > 
> > Huh???
> 
> Out of curiousity, what languages are zero based vs one based?
> Perl is zero based (unless you use '$[ = 1')
> 
> Zero based:
> 	C, C++, Perl, Python[1] ...
> 
> One based:
> 	Fortran, awk, Perl[2]
> 
> 
> [1] IIRC
> 
> [2] If you use '$[ = 1', but don't do that.
> 
> 
> 
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