commit 93eff6fecd6563c04ab6a15c546f00852ef8e639
author Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com> Tue May 30 17:11:48 2006 +0000
committer Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com> Tue May 30 17:11:48 2006 +0000
tree e61ea46401c978e927367439685fc996d351c9b5
parent 9faa3eda6b767ddfae8ff2627d50edd6ad072490

changed find/rfind to return -1 for matches outside the source string

Lib/test/string_tests.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/string_tests.py b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
index 5fe9fb9..c2e0875 100644
--- a/Lib/test/string_tests.py
+++ b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
@@ -154,6 +154,10 @@
         self.checkequal(9, 'abcdefghiabc', 'find', 'abc', 1)
         self.checkequal(-1, 'abcdefghiabc', 'find', 'def', 4)
 
+        self.checkequal(0, 'abc', 'find', '', 0)
+        self.checkequal(3, 'abc', 'find', '', 3)
+        self.checkequal(-1, 'abc', 'find', '', 4)
+
         self.checkraises(TypeError, 'hello', 'find')
         self.checkraises(TypeError, 'hello', 'find', 42)
 
@@ -188,6 +192,10 @@
         self.checkequal(0, 'abcdefghiabc', 'rfind', 'abcd')
         self.checkequal(-1, 'abcdefghiabc', 'rfind', 'abcz')
 
+        self.checkequal(3, 'abc', 'rfind', '', 0)
+        self.checkequal(3, 'abc', 'rfind', '', 3)
+        self.checkequal(-1, 'abc', 'rfind', '', 4)
+
         self.checkraises(TypeError, 'hello', 'rfind')
         self.checkraises(TypeError, 'hello', 'rfind', 42)
 

Objects/stringlib/find.h

diff --git a/Objects/stringlib/find.h b/Objects/stringlib/find.h
index 4cea2db..4cdbb09 100644
--- a/Objects/stringlib/find.h
+++ b/Objects/stringlib/find.h
@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@
 {
     Py_ssize_t pos;
 
-    if (sub_len == 0)
+    if (sub_len == 0) {
+        if (str_len < 0)
+            return -1;
         return offset;
+    }
 
     pos = fastsearch(str, str_len, sub, sub_len, FAST_SEARCH);
 
@@ -30,22 +33,20 @@
                 const STRINGLIB_CHAR* sub, Py_ssize_t sub_len,
                 Py_ssize_t offset)
 {
-    Py_ssize_t pos;
-
     /* XXX - create reversefastsearch helper! */
-    if (sub_len == 0)
-	pos = str_len + offset;
-    else {
-	Py_ssize_t j;
-        pos = -1;
+    if (sub_len == 0) {
+        if (str_len < 0)
+            return -1;
+	return str_len + offset;
+    } else {
+	Py_ssize_t j, pos = -1;
 	for (j = str_len - sub_len; j >= 0; --j)
             if (STRINGLIB_CMP(str+j, sub, sub_len) == 0) {
                 pos = j + offset;
                 break;
             }
+        return pos;
     }
-
-    return pos;
 }
 
 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(Py_ssize_t)