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-rw-r--r--src/libexpr/primops.cc2
-rw-r--r--tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.exp2
-rw-r--r--tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.nix2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index a4812de06..3e955ea3f 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static void prim_substring(EvalState & state, Value * * args, Value & v)
if (start < 0) throw EvalError("negative start position in `substring'");
- mkString(v, string(s, start, len), context);
+ mkString(v, start >= s.size() ? "" : string(s, start, len), context);
}
diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.exp b/tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.exp
index d936b7e96..6aace04b0 100644
--- a/tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.exp
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.exp
@@ -1 +1 @@
-"ooxfoobarybarzobaabb"
+"ooxfoobarybarzobaabbc"
diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.nix b/tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.nix
index 184d72580..424af00d9 100644
--- a/tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.nix
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-substring.nix
@@ -17,3 +17,5 @@ substring 1 2 s
+ substring 3 0 s
+ "b"
+ substring 3 1 s
++ "c"
++ substring 5 10 "perl"