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gever YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1 California	typo in online doc for shorten() Nov 25th, 2007, 7:08am   Example code does not show proper result for call to shorten(): String[] sa1 = { "OH ", "NY ", "CA "}; String[] sa2 = shorten(sa1); println(sa1);  // Prints OH, NY, CA should say: String[] sa1 = { "OH ", "NY ", "CA "}; String[] sa2 = shorten(sa1); println(sa2);  // Prints OH, NY which would better illustrate what shorten() does.

REAS YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 712 CA	Re: typo in online doc for shorten() Reply #1 - Nov 25th, 2007, 6:43pm   I changed it to this: String[] sa1 = { "OH ", "NY ", "CA "}; String[] sa2 = shorten(sa1); println(sa1);  // sa1 still contains OH, NY, CA println(sa2);  // sa2 now contains OH, NY It's more clear (as you suggested) and also shows there is no change to the first array. Thank you!