Can you read the next line while iterating over byLine?

[John Doe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 2 February 2017 at 18:58:46 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> Even this one could works:
>
> import std.stdio;
>
> void main(string[] args)
> {
>     auto range = File("text.txt").byLine();
>
>     foreach (line; range)
>
>     {
>         if (line != "")
>         {
>             writeln(line);
>             range.popFront;
>             char[] url = range.front().dup;
>             range.popFront;
>             char[] num = range.front().dup
>         }
>     }
> }

Thanks readln is perfect. Since I am calling readln in different 
places and I always need to remove the newline character I have 
line=line[0..$-1] all over my code. Is there are better way?

unrelated second question: Why is there no split function with a 
maxsplit parameter?