StringBuilder substring?
Well, it may have been obvious for many, but I had no idea. Whenever I was writing a piece of code that uses a StringBuilder I was terribly upset by the lack of a substring method.
It was there all along, only it is the ToString method. You give it the startIndex and length and you're set.
Looking at the source, I see that in .Net 1.1 this method is only a normal Substring on the internal string used by the string builder. In Net 2.0, the method uses a InternalSubStringWithChecks internal method of the string class, which is using a InternalSubString unsafe method that seems to be more basic and thus faster.
It was there all along, only it is the ToString method. You give it the startIndex and length and you're set.
Looking at the source, I see that in .Net 1.1 this method is only a normal Substring on the internal string used by the string builder. In Net 2.0, the method uses a InternalSubStringWithChecks internal method of the string class, which is using a InternalSubString unsafe method that seems to be more basic and thus faster.
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