diff --git a/src/terminal.go b/src/terminal.go
index 1d37989..4ea466a 100644
--- a/src/terminal.go
+++ b/src/terminal.go
@@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ func replacePlaceholder(template string, stripAnsi bool, delimiter Delimiter, fo
 		for idx, item := range items {
 			tokens := Tokenize(item.AsString(stripAnsi), delimiter)
 			trans := Transform(tokens, ranges)
-			str := string(joinTokens(trans))
+			str := joinTokens(trans)
 			if delimiter.str != nil {
 				str = strings.TrimSuffix(str, *delimiter.str)
 			} else if delimiter.regex != nil {
diff --git a/src/tokenizer_test.go b/src/tokenizer_test.go
index 0bdd0c1..985cef9 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer_test.go
+++ b/src/tokenizer_test.go
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ func TestTransform(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			ranges := splitNth("1,2,3")
 			tx := Transform(tokens, ranges)
-			if string(joinTokens(tx)) != "abc:  def:  ghi:  " {
+			if joinTokens(tx) != "abc:  def:  ghi:  " {
 				t.Errorf("%s", tx)
 			}
 		}
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ func TestTransform(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			ranges := splitNth("1..2,3,2..,1")
 			tx := Transform(tokens, ranges)
-			if string(joinTokens(tx)) != "  abc:  def:  ghi:  def:  ghi:  jkl  abc:" ||
+			if joinTokens(tx) != "  abc:  def:  ghi:  def:  ghi:  jkl  abc:" ||
 				len(tx) != 4 ||
 				tx[0].text.ToString() != "  abc:  def:" || tx[0].prefixLength != 0 ||
 				tx[1].text.ToString() != "  ghi:" || tx[1].prefixLength != 12 ||