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'substring' call should be replaced with 'dropLast' call

Reports calls like s.substring(0, s.length - x) that can be replaced with s.dropLast(x).

Using corresponding functions makes your code simpler.

The quick-fix replaces the substring call with dropLast.

Example:

fun foo(s: String) { s.substring(0, s.length - 5) }

After the quick-fix is applied:

fun foo(s: String) { s.dropLast(5) }

Inspection Details

Available in:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3

Plugin:

Kotlin, @snapshot@

Last modified: 13 July 2023