From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-19T02:00:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02011] Re: slice! ate my machine!


In message "[ruby-talk:02008] Re: slice! ate my machine!"
    on 00/03/18, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

|aestivum% ./ruby -e 'a = "hello"; p a.slice!(3, 4); p a'
|"lo"
|"h"

| Perhaps I've not understood what do slice! , but personnaly I'll check
| RSTRING(str)->len < len + beg and adjust len in consequence, no ?

You're right.  I should have check more.  Here's new patch.
Throw away old one in [ruby-talk:02006](probably by patch -R).

--- string.c.sav	Wed Feb  2 08:51:02 2000
+++ string.c	Sun Mar 19 01:53:00 2000
@@ -832,2 +888,6 @@
 {
+    if (RSTRING(str)->len < beg + len) {
+	len = RSTRING(str)->len - beg;
+    }
+
     if (len < RSTRING(val)->len) {