[bug #60802] Make .substring handle an empty result

Update of bug #60802 (project groff): Status: Need Info => In Progress ___ Reply to this item at: ___

[bug #60802] Make .substring handle an empty result

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[bug #60802] Make .substring handle an empty result

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #60802 (project groff): Hi Branden, I agree that changing existing expected behavior should be avoided. With 20-20 hindsight, it might have been better to make .substring take OFFSET LENGTH parameters instead of N1 N2 (similar to Perl's "substr"). But that water

[bug #60802] Make .substring handle an empty result

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #60802 (project groff): Here some older threads discussing .substring semantics. The behavior was changed back in 2002; these threads discuss an earlier implementation. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2001-10/msg00165.html This one features Werner seeking

[bug #60802] Make .substring handle an empty result

Update of bug #60802 (project groff): Status:None => Need Info Assigned to:None => gbranden ___ Follow-up Comment #3: Hi Jim, Thank you!

[bug #60802] Make .substring handle an empty result

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[bug #60802] Make .substring handle an empty result

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #60802 (project groff): In the email list where this was reported, Brandon Robinson asked for (1) a unit test for the boundary conditions of the .substring request and (2) a precise description of its slicing semantics in our documentation. Here is a first crack at

[bug #60802] Make .substring handle an empty result

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #60802 (project groff): Originally reported on the email list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-03/msg00038.html One follow-up at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-04/msg00015.html ___

[bug #60802] Make .substring handle an empty result

URL: Summary: Make .substring handle an empty result Project: GNU troff Submitted by: None Submitted on: Sun 20 Jun 2021 03:01:26 AM UTC Category: Core Severity: 3 -