Splitting a string on multiple tokens

[jerro]

On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 00:18:17 UTC, ixid wrote:
> Is there an effective way of splitting a string with a set of 
> tokens? Splitter feels rather limited and multiple passes gives 
> you an array of arrays of strings rather than an array of 
> strings. I'm not sure if I'm missing an obvious application of 
> library methods or if this is absent.

You can use std.regex.splitter like this:

auto r = regex(`,| |(--)`);
auto str = "string we,want--to,split";
writeln(splitter(str, r)); //will pring ["string", "we", "want", 
"to", "split"]