Bug in string.erl

[Joe Armstrong]

> Yes it is defintely a bug. The problem is that I was trying to be nice in the case where the desried substring length is longer than the remaining string inwhich case the substring  just gets the remaining characters. So
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> string:substr("abcd", 2, 5) -> "cd"
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> The second should of course be:
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> substr1(String, L) when list(String) -> []. %Be nice!

My goodness - I didn't realise you'd written the code - there was a
comment in it :-)

/Joe


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