Crate substring

Substring method for string types.

This crate provides a substring() method on Rust string types. The method takes a start and end character index and returns a string slice of the characters within that range.

The method is provided via the Substring trait which is implemented on the str primitive.

Example

use substring::Substring;

// Works on a string slice.
assert_eq!("foobar".substring(2,5), "oba");

// Also works on a String.
assert_eq!("foobar".to_string().substring(1,6), "oobar");

As Rust strings are UTF-8 encoded, the algorithm for finding a character substring is O(n), where n is the byte length of the string. This is due to characters not being of predictible byte lengths.

Note

The indexing of substrings is based on Unicode Scalar Value. As such, substrings may not always match your intuition:

use substring::Substring;

assert_eq!("ã".substring(0, 1), "a");  // As opposed to "ã".
assert_eq!("ã".substring(1, 2), "\u{0303}")

The above example occurs because “ã” is technically made up of two UTF-8 scalar values.

Traits

• Substring
  Provides a substring() method.