Re: Why (substring "abc" 0 4) does not return "abc" instead of an error?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

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))

(insert (substring string 0 (min 4 (length string))))

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