From 09860f7a0237a585dd269b33c6b7ee2df457e02a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Haller <bromeon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:18:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added String::substring() method

Based on pull request #355 from abodelot
---
 include/SFML/System/String.hpp | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 src/SFML/System/String.cpp     |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/SFML/System/String.hpp b/include/SFML/System/String.hpp
index 3abd4207..53d85fcf 100644
--- a/include/SFML/System/String.hpp
+++ b/include/SFML/System/String.hpp
@@ -437,6 +437,23 @@ public :
     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     void replace(const String& searchFor, const String& replaceWith);
 
+    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+    /// \brief Return a part of the string
+    ///
+    /// This function returns the substring that starts at index \a position 
+    /// and spans \a length characters.
+    ///
+    /// \param position Index of the first character 
+    /// \param length   Number of characters to include in the substring (if
+    ///                 the string is shorter, as many characters as possible
+    ///                 are included). \ref InvalidPos can be used to include all 
+    ///                 characters until the end of the string.
+    ///
+    /// \return String object containing a substring of this object
+    ///
+    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+    String substring(std::size_t position, std::size_t length = InvalidPos) const;
+
     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     /// \brief Get a pointer to the C-style array of characters
     ///
diff --git a/src/SFML/System/String.cpp b/src/SFML/System/String.cpp
index ba02ea48..61f80e82 100644
--- a/src/SFML/System/String.cpp
+++ b/src/SFML/System/String.cpp
@@ -304,6 +304,13 @@ void String::replace(const String& searchFor, const String& replaceWith)
 }
 
 
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+String String::substring(std::size_t position, std::size_t length) const
+{
+    return m_string.substr(position, length);
+}
+
+
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 const Uint32* String::getData() const
 {