Removing an object from a range

[spir]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:43:12 -0500
"Andrej M." <none at none.com> wrote:

> I can't seem to find an easy remove method in std.algorithm that takes an object and a range (an array in this case) and removes any matches from the range. I'm using this snippet for now:
> 
> private DrawingElement[] elements;
> 
> public override void Remove(DrawingElement d)
> {
>     foreach (i, child; elements)
>     {
>         if (child == d)
>         {
>             elements = remove(elements, i);
>             break;
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> Ugly! :)
> 
> It's a direct port from some C# code so don't mind the silly variable names.
 
A common idiom in various languages for remove is collection.replace(something, nothing). (This indeed works fine in D for strings :-)


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