class String
Implementation of String#byteslice
since RubyMotion (at least as of 3.6) does not implement it.
Public Instance Methods
byteslice(*args)
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To get a byte range out of a possible multibyte string, force encoding to ASCII-8BIT and use regular string slice, then restore the original encoding
# File lib/motion-strscan/string.rb, line 9 def byteslice(*args) result = nil begin enc = self.encoding self.force_encoding('ASCII-8BIT') result = self.slice(*args) ensure self.force_encoding(enc) end result ? result.force_encoding(enc) : nil end