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

[Chad J]

On 06/23/2012 02:53 PM, simendsjo wrote:
> 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"));

True, although I'm a bigger fan of the compile-time alias predicate 
because of it's superior inline-ability. ;)