From 2c43de981f0862b7549429fb024e1b4c089918b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Liptak <squeek502@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:16:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Potentially temporary fix for parsing a string as ascii while
 I investigate

---
 src/literals.zig | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/literals.zig b/src/literals.zig
index ac78ac4..c423ebc 100644
--- a/src/literals.zig
+++ b/src/literals.zig
@@ -469,7 +469,15 @@ pub fn parseQuotedStringAsWideString(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, bytes: Source
 
 pub fn parseQuotedStringAsAsciiString(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, bytes: SourceBytes, options: StringParseOptions) ![]u8 {
     std.debug.assert(bytes.slice.len >= 2); // ""
-    return parseQuotedString(.ascii, allocator, bytes, options);
+    // This is slightly hacky, but L"\xABCD" will lead to an @intCast failure
+    // because to the L prefix makes the parser allow 4 hex digits in an escape sequence.
+    // To avoid this error and get the behavior we want, we just strip the L if it exists
+    // and parse the string as if there was no prefix.
+    var ascii_bytes = bytes;
+    if (bytes.slice[0] == 'L' or bytes.slice[0] == 'l') {
+        ascii_bytes.slice = ascii_bytes.slice[1..];
+    }
+    return parseQuotedString(.ascii, allocator, ascii_bytes, options);
 }
 
 test "parse quoted ascii string" {