Didn't find it but is there a `substring` method :...

# stdlib

[Xavier F. Gouchet]

Didn't find it but is there a substring method :

fun String.substring(maxLength : Int): String {
    return if (length > maxLength) substring(0, maxLength) else this
}

[Xavier F. Gouchet]

The goal here being to avoid the IndexOutOfBoundsException when the string is shorter than the desired length

[diesieben07]

String.substring(Int) already means "substring with start index", so a different name would have to be chosen.
However you can easily do this in a pretty expressive way already:
x.substring(0, min(x.length, 5))

[Kristoffer Andersen]

I think you are looking for take?

[Kristoffer Andersen]

fun main() {
    println("abc".take(0))
    println("abc".take(2))
    println("abc".take(5))
}

prints

ab
abc