Class: String

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/motion-strscan/string.rb

Overview

Implementation of String#byteslice since RubyMotion (at least as of 3.6) does not implement it.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#byteslice(*args) ⇒ Object

To get a byte range out of a possible multibyte string, force encoding to ASCII-8BIT and use regular string slice, then restore the original encoding



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# File 'lib/motion-strscan/string.rb', line 9

def byteslice(*args)
  result = nil
  begin
    enc = self.encoding
    self.force_encoding('ASCII-8BIT')
    result = self.slice(*args)
  ensure
    self.force_encoding(enc)
  end
  result ? result.force_encoding(enc) : nil
end