diff --git a/src/libcollections/string.rs b/src/libcollections/string.rs
index 70b514afd035f..50716d03ac470 100644
--- a/src/libcollections/string.rs
+++ b/src/libcollections/string.rs
@@ -1182,8 +1182,7 @@ impl String {
                reason = "recent addition",
                issue = "0")]
     pub fn insert_str(&mut self, idx: usize, string: &str) {
-        let len = self.len();
-        assert!(idx <= len);
+        assert!(idx <= self.len());
         assert!(self.is_char_boundary(idx));
 
         unsafe {