Thank you, Raul.  I should have thought of that.  Neat and clever.

Leigh

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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 9:29 AM
To: Programming forum
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Negative Indices

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Leigh J. Halliwell
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> I'm working with an array of n items.  It's possible for my index to be
_1;
> but then I'd like _1 { array to generate an error, rather than to select
the
> last item.  Is there any "clean/elegant" way to do this, i.e., with just
> using '{' and no conditional statements?  I might have a similar problem
> with i. _1.  Thanks.

You could use >.&_0.5 on your indices.

-- 
Raul

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