Re: REALbasic 4.5.1fc1 Now Available

["Michael J. Hußmann" <michael at michael-hussmann dot de>]

Steve Schacht (shot at frontier dot net) wrote:

> > I think that it makes good sense as it is.
> 
> How so?  How can a string that contains something be the same as an empty
> string?

Nobody claims it's the same, just that both can occur at the same
position. Nothing unusual about that, really, since

InStr(2, "abc", "b") = 2
InStr(2, "abc", "bc") = 2

doesn't imply that "b" and "bc" were the same, either. 

- Michael

Michael J. Hussmann

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