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Old 12-09-2010, 11:26 AM   #98
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
It would be nice to support negative indices for substr for "length from the end"
It does.

The result is x[start:end]. As it makes no sense for end to be zero, I used zero to indicate x[start:]. There is no ambiguity with the start field, so no hack was required.
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