As for the reason I also use ".state.substr (0,4)", it's because this creates a substring from the 0th character to the 4th, and prevents rendering a string that has, like, nine decimal places in it.

Ruby bindings to RE2, a "fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python". - mudge/re2 ...

MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library. - Pull requests · microsoft/STL ...