Thanks Gunnar,
the issue disappears when I temporarily remove Varraycut[i-1]. 

Is there a way then that I could do what I want to accomplish with that 
faulty code in a list comprehension?

Like in Python, I could do

count = sum([a<0 and b==0 for a,b in zip(Varraycut,Varraycut[1:])])



On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 5:52:07 AM UTC-4, Gunnar Farnebäck wrote:
>
> BoundsError means you're trying to index out of bounds. I see nothing in 
> the backtrace indicating the splice function being involved and I have no 
> way of knowing which line in your function is numbered 204 but there's a 
> good chance Varraycut[i-1] will try to index at 0 in the first turn of your 
> loop when i=1.
>
> Den onsdagen den 30:e juli 2014 kl. 01:14:53 UTC+2 skrev 
> [email protected]:
>>
>> Hi Julia users,
>>
>>
>> There are a number of things wrong with this script that I am working on, 
>> but for the time being, I am trying to resolve a BoundsError() triggered 
>> while slicing an array. Code is attached. 
>>
>> The source of the BoundsError() appears to be this function. 
>>
>> function spikecounter(Varray)
>>>     #spiketimes = Int64[]
>>>     Varraycut = splice!(Varray,1:spliceend)
>>>     spikecount = 0
>>>     for i in Int64[1:len(Varraycut)]
>>>         if Varraycut[i] >= 0 && Varraycut[i-1] < 0
>>>         #= push!(spiketimes,i)
>>>         other option of counting spikes is to append spiketimes to an 
>>> array, and then count length of array =#
>>>         spikecount += 1
>>>     end
>>>     end
>>>     return spikecount
>>> end
>>>
>>
>> Because of other errors in my code, Varray usually contains NaN entries. 
>> However, these NaN entries are still appending into my arrays, and I was 
>> thinking that if these entries exist, it should still be possible to splice 
>> the array. Do these NaN entries preclude Varray from being spliced? 
>>
>> This is the exact error:
>>
>> ERROR: BoundsError()
>>>  in getindex at array.jl:246
>>>  in spikecounter at /Users/xieh/Dropbox/spiking/j2test.jl:204
>>>  in moldakarimov at /Users/xieh/Dropbox/spiking/j2test.jl:223
>>>  in calcchi at /Users/xieh/Dropbox/spiking/j2test.jl:306
>>>  in mcmc at /Users/xieh/Dropbox/spiking/j2test.jl:319
>>> while loading /Users/xieh/Dropbox/spiking/j2test.jl, in expression 
>>> starting on line 365
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wally  
>>
>>

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