Angus,I don't think you're at fault but you must keep in mind that a lot of people that read this list get a lot of the same questions repeatedly, only worded slightly differently. I also didn't notice that you used slicing in your first message, and in your second message I just saw that you quoted the first one and my brain triggered its automatic "you've read this section, skip it!" setting and I skipped over it. I didn't see the slicing until I was writing a reply with an alternate way to solve the problem (using slices) when I went back to refer to your original e-mail and I saw that you used slicing as well, and I discarded my reply.
I think it's pretty clear that Robert skimmed your message, but that's not an issue either for him or for you. If anything, this is just additional noise that others now have to acknowledge. So I suggest we drop it and pretend Robert didn't even reply.
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