How the hell to split multiple delims?

[Paul Backus]

On Saturday, 15 February 2020 at 22:30:03 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 February 2020 at 11:32:42 UTC, AlphaPurned 
> wrote:
>> I've tried 10 different ways with split and splitter, I've 
>> used all the stuff that people have said online but nothing 
>> works. I always get a template mismatch error.
>>
>> Why is something so easy to do so hard in D?
>>
>> auto toks = std.regex.split(l, Regex("s"));
>> auto toks = std.regex.splitter(l, Regex("s"));
>> auto toks = std.regex.splitter(l, ctRegex!r"\.");
>
> I had the same problem myself recently, and almost ended up 
> here to ask the same question as you but stumbled across the 
> following (ugly) solution without using regexs.
>
> char[] line = "Split this by#space or#sign."
>
> auto parts = line.splitter!(a => a=='#' | a==' ').array;

This works for me:

import std;
void main()
{
     string line = "Split this by#space or#sign.";
     auto parts = line.splitter(regex("[ #]")).array;
     writeln(parts); // ["Split", "this", "by", "space", "or", 
"sign."]
}