phobos and splitting things... but not with whitespace.

[simendsjo]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:41:29 +0200, Chad J  
<chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hey, thanks for doing all of that.  I didn't expect you to write all of  
> that.
np

>  Once I've established that the issue isn't just a lack of learning on  
> my part, my subsequent objective is filling any missing functionality in  
> phobos.  IMO the "take away a single line" thing should be  
> accomplishable with a single concise expression.  Then there should be a  
> function in std.string that contains that single expression and wraps it  
> in easy-to-find documentation.  This kind of thing is a fairly common  
> operation.  Otherwise, I find it odd that there is a function to split  
> up an arbitrary number of lines but no function to split off only one!
>  Also, any function that works with whitespace should have  
> versions/variants that work with arbitrary delimiters.  Not unless it is  
> impossible to generalize it that way for some reason.  If the variants  
> are found in a separate module, then the documentation should reference  
> them.


The problem here is there isn't a version of findSplit only taking a  
predicate and not a needle.
If it had an overload just taking a function, you could have solved it by  
writing:
auto res = myText.findSplit!(a => a.startsWith("\r\n", "\n", "\r"));