Name: jl125535 Date: 08/20/2003


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
To append a part of a StringBuffer to another StringBuffer it is
currently necessary to create a String representing the part by using
StringBuffer.subString().

JUSTIFICATION :
Having the above mentioned function would speed up
copying bits and pieces from one StringBuffer to another
without creating intermediate String objects.


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
StringBuffer src = new StringBuffer();
StringBuffer dest = new StringBuffer();
...
dest.append(src, 10, 2)

should suffice to pick two characters at offset 10 from src and append
them to dest.

ACTUAL -
Currently I have to write

dest.append(src.substring(10,12))

(Incident Review ID: 186114)
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