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Incorrect or inconsistent behavior with sπŸ”‘ πŸ”β— method

joeskeen opened this issue Β· comments

Consider the following unit tests:

πŸ“¦ testtube 🏠

🏁 ➑️ πŸ”’ πŸ‡
  ↩️ πŸ‘”πŸ†•πŸ¦”β—οΈβ—οΈ
πŸ‰

πŸ‡ πŸ¦” πŸ§ͺ πŸ‡
    
    βœ’οΈ ❗️ 🏁 πŸ‡
        πŸ”’πŸ‘‡ πŸΊπŸ”πŸ”€ABCDEFGHIπŸ”€ πŸ”€FπŸ”€β— 5 πŸ”€'F' should be at index 5 of 'ABCDEFGHI'πŸ”€β—
        πŸ”‘πŸ‘‡ πŸ”ͺπŸ”€ABCDEFGHIπŸ”€ 1 3❗ πŸ”€BCDπŸ”€ πŸ”€substring of 'ABCDEFGHI' from index 0 and length 3 should be 'BCD'πŸ”€β—

        πŸ”’πŸ‘‡ πŸΊπŸ”πŸ”€πŸΏABCπŸ†cπŸ”€ πŸ”€πŸ†πŸ”€β— 4 πŸ”€'πŸ†' should be at index 5 of '🍿ABCπŸ†c'πŸ”€β—
        πŸ”‘πŸ‘‡ πŸ”ͺπŸ”€πŸΏABCπŸ†cπŸ”€ 1 3❗ πŸ”€ABCπŸ”€ πŸ”€substring of '🍿ABCπŸ†c' from index 0 and length 3 should be 'ABC'πŸ”€β—
    πŸ‰
πŸ‰

All these tests should pass, but this is the output:

❌ Failed 'πŸ†' should be at index 5 of '🍿ABCπŸ†c' but it is 7 
4 assertions, 1 failures

From this message, it is apparent that the sπŸ”‘ πŸ”β— method is returning the index in terms of UTF-8 bytes, not grapheme index. This is inconsistent with the sπŸ”‘ πŸ”ͺ❗method, which is using grapheme index (as shown in the tests).

This inconsistency makes the sπŸ”‘ πŸ”β—method confusing at best and useless at the worst case when strings are outside of the ASCII range.

Ideally the workaround for this issue would be to first convert the string into a list via sπŸ”‘ πŸŽΆβ—, then find the index with s🍨 πŸ”β—, but unfortunately that does not exist. I intend to submit a pull request for that method shortly.

Edit: you can't implement πŸ”β— on s🍨🐚βšͺπŸ† since you can't compare two βšͺs with πŸ™Œ or anything else, and you can't cast the βšͺ to protocol πŸ˜› since it's generic 😒. Looks like the only way to do this is fix the sπŸ”‘πŸ”β— method.

commented

I agree, this is very inconsistent and should be corrected.