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From: | Bastien |
Subject: | Re: Why (substring "abc" 0 4) does not return "abc" instead of an error? |
Date: | Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:30:12 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes: > Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes: > >> I'm not even able to come up with some concrete use-case where I'd >> like to have the suggested behavior. > > It's a very common use case for me. I know that a string can't be > longer than X for some particular use, so I have to say > > (insert (if (> (length string) 4) > (substring string 0 4) > string)) Well, see `string-head' and `string-tail' in my other message. -- Bastien
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