Hi Fredrik,
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:48:50AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> since "abc".find("", 0) == 0, I would have thought that a program that
> searched for an empty string in a loop wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Indeed. And when this bug was found in the program in question, a
natural fix was to add 1 to the start position if the searched string
was empty, which used to ensure that the loop terminates.
A bientot,
Armin
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