From 7afa4c7e2c73372825cf8c87a17332717a4eab8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Delyan Angelov <delian66@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:11:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] builtin: fix `["abc", "xyz"].str()`

---
 vlib/builtin/array.v | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vlib/builtin/array.v b/vlib/builtin/array.v
index 5520dc16ca..476b306e13 100644
--- a/vlib/builtin/array.v
+++ b/vlib/builtin/array.v
@@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ pub fn (mut a []string) free() {
 
 // str returns a string representation of the array of strings
 // => '["a", "b", "c"]'.
+[manualfree]
 pub fn (a []string) str() string {
 	mut sb := strings.new_builder(a.len * 3)
 	sb.write_string('[')
@@ -511,7 +512,9 @@ pub fn (a []string) str() string {
 		}
 	}
 	sb.write_string(']')
-	return sb.str()
+	res := sb.str()
+	unsafe { sb.free() }
+	return res
 }
 
 // hex returns a string with the hexadecimal representation