Warp wrote:
> 
>   It seems that the one who wrote that part of the doc thought that the
> indexing starts from 0 and ends at strlen(S)-1, as in C.
> 
>   Perhaps the problem is not in the documentation, but in povray. In my
> opinion this behaviour is a bit inconsistent. Array indexing starts from 0.
> 

But don't forget that in Pascal/Delphi it works the other way:

copy('ABCDEF', 3, 2) 

returns 'CD'.

Both ways have their advantages, i would keep it the way it is now.

Christoph

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