String slice hard crash

Z-Mann

Executing the following code crashes FUZE hard (termniate to the system menu):

s = "Hello World!"
f = s[0:len(s)-2]

Workaround: Store the length in an intermediate variable:

s = "Hello World!"
l = len(s)
f = s[0:l-2]

What bothers me more than the crash is that, to cut off the last character of a string, I have to use l-2, not l-1. That does not seem to fit with the index range philosophy in other places (array index goes from 0 to len(array)-1, for i = 0 to 10 goes from 0 to 9) and makes it impossible to get a zero length slice; s[0:0] is still one character. String and array slices are undocumented AFAIK, so you can still change that and nobody would have the right to complain if you break their code :)

Z-Mann

Oh, turns out
f = s[0:-2]
also works perfectly and returns s with the last character removed, no need to call len() at all. Still, gnarl, -2 instead of -1....

Dave

@Z-Mann apologies for the delayed response. We will look into it.