splitter for strings

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:49:29 -0400, monarch_dodra <monarchdodra at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Monday, 9 June 2014 at 14:21:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Just looked at std.string for a strip function that allows custom  
>> character strippage, but apparently not there. The above is quite  
>> awkward.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> It's in algorithm, because it's more generic than just strings.

Ugh.. This makes things difficult. If I want to work with strings, I  
import std.string.

I understand that the algorithm is applicable to all types, but this makes  
for some awkward coding. What if you wanted to use both? Surely we can  
come up with a better solution than this.

-Steve