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ref: be19f4eb91be594d4bcb5d7fde37be20835d294a
parent: be4fe8f8afb09e8fd0d50f000d52619d3824516d
author: bep <[email protected]>
date: Mon Mar 23 08:18:34 EDT 2015

Rename Substr to Slice

That is whas was implemented, not Substr.

Also make the API more similar to Go's internal slice by making both the start and end indices optional.

See #990

--- a/tpl/template.go
+++ b/tpl/template.go
@@ -188,12 +188,25 @@
 	return left, right
 }
 
-func Substr(a interface{}, pos, length int) (string, error) {
+// Slicing in Slice is done by specifying a half-open range with
+// two indices, lower and upper. 1 and 4 creates a slice including elements 1 through 3.
+// The start and/or end indices can be omitted by setting one or both of them to -1; they default to zero and the slice's length respectively
+func Slice(a interface{}, start, end int) (string, error) {
 	aStr, err := cast.ToStringE(a)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
-	return aStr[pos:length], nil
+
+	if start != -1 && end != -1 {
+		return aStr[start:end], nil
+	} else if start == -1 && end == -1 {
+		return aStr[:], nil
+	} else if start == -1 {
+		return aStr[:end], nil
+	} else {
+		return aStr[start:], nil
+	}
+
 }
 
 func Split(a interface{}, delimiter string) ([]string, error) {
@@ -1324,7 +1337,7 @@
 		"lt":          Lt,
 		"le":          Le,
 		"in":          In,
-		"substr":      Substr,
+		"slice":       Slice,
 		"split":       Split,
 		"intersect":   Intersect,
 		"isSet":       IsSet,
--- a/tpl/template_test.go
+++ b/tpl/template_test.go
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
 	}
 }
 
-func TestSubstr(t *testing.T) {
+func TestSlice(t *testing.T) {
 	for i, this := range []struct {
 		v1     interface{}
 		v2     int
@@ -286,14 +286,17 @@
 		{"abc", 1, 2, "b"},
 		{"abc", 1, 3, "bc"},
 		{"abc", 0, 1, "a"},
+		{"abcdef", -1, -1, "abcdef"},
+		{"abcdef", -1, 2, "ab"},
+		{"abcdef", 2, -1, "cdef"},
 		{123, 1, 3, "23"},
 		{tstNoStringer{}, 0, 1, false},
 	} {
-		result, err := Substr(this.v1, this.v2, this.v3)
+		result, err := Slice(this.v1, this.v2, this.v3)
 
 		if b, ok := this.expect.(bool); ok && !b {
 			if err == nil {
-				t.Errorf("[%d] Substr didn't return an expected error", i)
+				t.Errorf("[%d] Slice didn't return an expected error", i)
 			}
 		} else {
 			if err != nil {