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String.slice! produces a strange result

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String.slice! produces a strange result

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The following produces a strange result for slice! (unless I have made a mistake).

irb session with ruby 2.2.5p319 (2016-04-26 revision 54774) [x86_64-linux]

irb(main):001:0> a= File.read(',a');nil
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> a.class.name
=> "String"
irb(main):003:0> a.size
=> 66173
irb(main):004:0> b=a.slice(0..65534);nil
=> nil
irb(main):005:0> b.size
=> 65535
irb(main):006:0> a.slice!(0..65534);nil
=> nil
irb(main):007:0> a.size
=> 638
irb(main):008:0>

where file ",a" is a text string of length 66173 characters.

The string needs to be trimmed to fit a mysql column of type :text which has a max size of 65535 characters,

If the variable a is sliced to a new String variable b it results in a correct slice.

If the variable a is sliced in place, seems to do odd things resulting in a length of 638. Why?

Could someone explain what is going on?

slice!

Deletes the specified portion from str, and returns the portion deleted.

66173 - 65535
# => 638

tl;dr: a = slice!(...) is not equivalent to a = a.slice(...).


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