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Bug Hunting Adventures #12: String Limits

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The aim of the routine below (‘reduce_string’) is to limit a given ‘string’ to at most ‘max_len’ characters. If the length of ‘string’ exceeds ‘max_len’, characters are removed from around the middle and filled with an ‘ellipsis’ string. Here are some examples that demonstrate what ‘reduce_string’ is supposed to do:

But as always in this series, a bug slipped in. Can you find it?

Solution