From 9b2c125357bd6f9e95d2c40cf2eb511b5ce479cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Lee <slee@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:24:31 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix `VtSubstring` helper method to correctly check chars
 copied (#19240)

---
 src/System.Management.Automation/utils/StringUtil.cs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/utils/StringUtil.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/utils/StringUtil.cs
index 6bdedd03a3..8daf31866d 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/utils/StringUtil.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/utils/StringUtil.cs
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation.Internal
                     }
 
                     // If the number of copied non-escape-sequence characters has reached the specified length, done copying.
-                    if (offset == length)
+                    if (copyStarted && offset == length)
                     {
                         break;
                     }