NAME String::Base - string index offseting DESCRIPTION This module implements automatic offsetting of string indices. In normal Perl, the first character of a string has index 0, the second character has index 1, and so on. This module allows string indexes to start at some other value. Most commonly it is used to give the first character of a string the index 1 (and the second 2, and so on), to imitate the indexing behaviour of FORTRAN and many other languages. It is usually considered poor style to do this. The string index offset is controlled at compile time, in a lexically-scoped manner. Each block of code, therefore, is subject to a fixed offset. It is expected that the affected code is written with knowledge of what that offset is. INSTALLATION perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install AUTHOR Andrew Main (Zefram) COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Andrew Main (Zefram) LICENSE This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.