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instance method

Encoding::Converter#putback

ec.putback → string

ec.putback(max_numbytes) → string

static VALUE
econv_putback(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
{
    rb_econv_t *ec = check_econv(self);
    int n;
    int putbackable;
    VALUE str, max;

    if (!rb_check_arity(argc, 0, 1) || NIL_P(max = argv[0])) {
        n = rb_econv_putbackable(ec);
    }
    else {
        n = NUM2INT(max);
        putbackable = rb_econv_putbackable(ec);
        if (putbackable < n)
            n = putbackable;
    }

    str = rb_str_new(NULL, n);
    rb_econv_putback(ec, (unsigned char *)RSTRING_PTR(str), n);

    if (ec->source_encoding) {
        rb_enc_associate(str, ec->source_encoding);
    }

    return str;
}

Put back the bytes which will be converted.

The bytes are caused by invalid_byte_sequence error. When invalid_byte_sequence error, some bytes are discarded and some bytes are buffered to be converted later. The latter bytes can be put back. It can be observed by Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError#readagain_bytes and Encoding::Converter#primitive_errinfo.

Example

ec = Encoding::Converter.new("utf-16le", "iso-8859-1")
src = "\x00\xd8\x61\x00"
dst = ""
p ec.primitive_convert(src, dst)   #=> :invalid_byte_sequence
p ec.primitive_errinfo     #=> [:invalid_byte_sequence, "UTF-16LE", "UTF-8", "\x00\xD8", "a\x00"]
p ec.putback               #=> "a\x00"
p ec.putback               #=> ""          # no more bytes to put back

See also #primitive_errinfo #replacement #primitive_convert #replacement= also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1

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