Task to throw away string parts, use joiner and splitter not very successful
monarch_dodra
monarchdodra at gmail.com
Thu Jan 2 07:36:41 PST 2014
On Tuesday, 31 December 2013 at 21:23:08 UTC, Rémy Mouëza wrote:
> I'd also suggest the following alternative, if you're going to
> discard a lot of last elements in your code:
>
> /// Return seq without its last element.
> auto poppedBack (T) (T seq) if (isInputRange!T) {
> seq.popBack; // Discards the last element.
> return seq;
> }
That's a function in "std.range": dropBack. No need for this.
On Wednesday, 1 January 2014 at 07:36:11 UTC, Dfr wrote:
> This is interesting, why i can't just do it simpler way ?
>
> "this.is.a.string"
> .splitter (".")
> .popBack
> .joiner (".")
> .array
> .writeln;
>
>
> Because creating an extra function is not desired.
Because "popBack" is not the same as (the oddly named)
"poppedBack". "drop" will do what you need, without a new
function.
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