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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>obi-wan error</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../O.html" title="O"/><link rel="previous" href="Obfuscated-C-Contest.html" title="Obfuscated C Contest"/><link rel="next" href="Objectionable-C.html" title="Objectionable-C"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">obi-wan error</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Obfuscated-C-Contest.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">O</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Objectionable-C.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="obi-wan-error"/><dt xmlns="" id="obi-wan-error"><b>obi-wan error</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/oh´bee·won` er'@r/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [RPI, from <span class="firstterm">off-by-one</span> and the
Obi-Wan Kenobi character in <i class="citetitle">Star Wars</i>] A loop of
some sort in which the index is off by one.</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Common when the index should have started from 0 but instead
started from 1.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A kind of <a href="off-by-one-error.html"><i class="glossterm">off-by-one error</i></a>. See also
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