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+// Copyright 2002 The Trustees of Indiana University.
+
+// Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software 
+// License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
+// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+//  Boost.MultiArray Library
+//  Authors: Ronald Garcia
+//           Jeremy Siek
+//           Andrew Lumsdaine
+//  See http://www.boost.org/libs/multi_array for documentation.
+
+
+#include "boost/multi_array.hpp"
+#include "boost/cstdlib.hpp"
+
+int
+main()
+{
+  const int ndims=3;
+  typedef boost::multi_array<int,ndims> array;
+
+  int data[] = {
+    0,1,2,3,
+    4,5,6,7,
+    8,9,10,11,
+
+    12,13,14,15,
+    16,17,18,19,
+    20,21,22,23
+  };
+  const int data_size=24;
+
+  array myarray(boost::extents[2][3][4]);
+  myarray.assign(data,data+data_size);
+
+  //
+  // array_view dims:
+  // [base,stride,bound)
+  // [0,1,2), [1,1,3), [0,2,4) 
+  // 
+
+  typedef array::index_range range;
+  array::array_view<ndims>::type myview =
+    myarray[boost::indices[range(0,2)][range(1,3)][range(0,4,2)]];
+
+  for (array::index i = 0; i != 2; ++i)
+    for (array::index j = 0; j != 2; ++j)
+      for (array::index k = 0; k != 2; ++k) 
+        assert(myview[i][j][k] == myarray[i][j+1][k*2]);
+
+  return boost::exit_success;
+}