strings

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1989May13.211218.24251 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> You can't, any more than you can improve the equivalent in some other
> languages to get the length of a trailing substring without having to
> go back to the beginning and then subtract.

Not if the string is stored as a length-and-start-address.
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