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.doctrees/environment.pickle

@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ You can slice a string with ``[start:end]``.  Negative values represent position
    string s1 = greeting[7:12];        // => "world"
    string s2 = greeting[-4:-2];       // => "or"
 
-Note that indices in Vala start with 0 as in most other programming languages.  Starting with Vala 0.11 you can access a single byte of a string with ``[index]``:
+Note that indices in Vala start with 0 as in most other programming languages; the start index is inclusive and the end index is exclusive. An empty slice may be `null`.
+
+You can access a single byte of a string with ``[index]``:
 
 .. code-block:: vala
 

.doctrees/tutorials/programming-language/main/02-00-basics/02-04-data-types.doctree

@@ -612,7 +612,8 @@ <h2><span class="section-number">2.4.2. </span>Strings<a class="headerlink" href
 <span class="kt">string</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">s2</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">greeting</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">:-</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">];</span><span class="w">       </span><span class="c1">// =&gt; &quot;or&quot;</span>
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-<p>Note that indices in Vala start with 0 as in most other programming languages.  Starting with Vala 0.11 you can access a single byte of a string with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[index]</span></code>:</p>
+<p>Note that indices in Vala start with 0 as in most other programming languages; the start index is inclusive and the end index is exclusive. An empty slice may be <cite>null</cite>.</p>
+<p>You can access a single byte of a string with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[index]</span></code>:</p>
 <div class="highlight-vala notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kt">uint8</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">b</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">greeting</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">];</span><span class="w">             </span><span class="c1">// =&gt; 0x77</span>
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