public static String substring()

in src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/utils/StringUtils.java [336:368]

• 24 lines of code
• 8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public static String substring(String str, int start, int end) {
        if (str == null) {
            return null;
        }

        // handle negatives
        if (end < 0) {
            end = str.length() + end; // remember end is negative
        }
        if (start < 0) {
            start = str.length() + start; // remember start is negative
        }

        // check length next
        if (end > str.length()) {
            // check this works.
            end = str.length();
        }

        // if start is greater than end, return ""
        if (start > end) {
            return "";
        }

        if (start < 0) {
            start = 0;
        }
        if (end < 0) {
            end = 0;
        }

        return str.substring(start, end);
    }