From: afn03257 AT freenet3 DOT afn DOT org (Daniel P Hudson)
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Subject: Re: quickbasic record to c struct?
Date: 12 Dec 1996 12:13:23 GMT
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Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com> wrote:
>Randy Kaelber wrote:

>> Are we sure of this? It's been years since I've done any BASIC
>> programming, but I'm quite certain that array indexes started at 0.

>They started at 1, although on some versions of BASIC you could change
>this.  (I don't know about the later incarnations of BASIC such as
>QBASIC or Visual BASIC.)

 As ANSI specifies, Arrays start at the element specified, if no
 value is given they default to 1 as the start. Some implementations
 permit an override feature which sets the base to a different default.