String#bytesplice

[kddnewton]

Introduced in Ruby 3.2. I came here looking for a polyfill so I can support it in my library 😅.

[palkan]

Thanks for the request!

I've just started working on the next release today 🙂 Will try to include this feature into it. Stay tuned!

[kddnewton]

❤️

Here's what I ended up settling on:

def bytesplice(range, value)
  previous_encoding = encoding

  begin
    force_encoding(Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
    self[range] = value
  ensure
    force_encoding(previous_encoding)
  end

  self
end   

but note that this doesn't handle the (start, length, value) signature, just the range signature. Hopefully that helps though!