Hallo all :), Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: |Tadziu Hoffmann wrote on Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 05:20:54PM +0100: |> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> [snip] | |> Where do you see a bug? |> |> man 7 groff: |> |> .substring xx n1 n2 |> Replace the string named xx with the substring defined by |> the indices n1 and n2. | |The wording could be improved. As it stands, it is not clear |whether the character at index n2 is the last character included |or the first character not included. | |Maybe: | | Replace the string named xx with its substring beginning with | the zero-based index n1 and ending with index n2, inclusively.
Inclusive index n2 of the _resulting substring_, please. For S-roff i will add a .substr request which takes an index and a length. (Just like perl(1), if length is negative, "leaves that many characters off the end of the string".) --steffen
