From 2c75aabbfcdbb7075ed3d1763db65588bc3abedb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:41:59 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] allow `size` and other to count bytes from binary with
 `as_string()` (#769)

---
 crates/nu-protocol/src/value/mod.rs | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crates/nu-protocol/src/value/mod.rs b/crates/nu-protocol/src/value/mod.rs
index d5934fc485..c449c39b9e 100644
--- a/crates/nu-protocol/src/value/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-protocol/src/value/mod.rs
@@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ impl Value {
     pub fn as_string(&self) -> Result<String, ShellError> {
         match self {
             Value::String { val, .. } => Ok(val.to_string()),
+            Value::Binary { val, .. } => Ok(match std::str::from_utf8(val) {
+                Ok(s) => s.to_string(),
+                Err(_) => {
+                    return Err(ShellError::CantConvert(
+                        "binary".into(),
+                        "string".into(),
+                        self.span()?,
+                    ))
+                }
+            }),
             x => Err(ShellError::CantConvert(
                 "string".into(),
                 x.get_type().to_string(),