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package org.mozilla.javascript.regexp;

class SubString {

    public SubString()
    {
    }

    public SubString(String str)
    {
        index = 0;
        charArray = str.toCharArray();
        length = str.length();
    }

    public SubString(char[] source, int start, int len)
    {
    // there must be a better way of doing this??
        index = 0;
        length = len;
        charArray = new char[len];
        for (int j = 0; j < len; j++)
            charArray[j] = source[start + j];
    }

    public String toString() {
        return charArray == null
               ? ""
               : new String(charArray, index, length);
    }

    static final SubString emptySubString = new SubString();

    char[] charArray;
    int    index;
    int    length;
}

