Should this work?

[Manu]

On 10 January 2014 06:53, Craig Dillabaugh <cdillaba at cg.scs.carleton.ca>wrote:

> On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 19:05:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 18:57:26 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>>
>>> A while ago I was trying to do something with splitter on a string and I
>>> ended up asking a question on D.learn. [...]
>>>
>>> It would be nice if std.string in D provided a nice, easy, string
>>> manipulation that swept most of the difficulties under the table
>>>
>>
>> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_array.html#split
>>
>> Note that std.array is publicly imported from std.string so this works:
>>
>> void main() {
>>         import std.string;
>>         auto parts = "hello".split("l");
>>
>>         import std.stdio;
>>         writeln(parts);
>> }
>>
>>
>>  provided links in the documentation to the functions they wrap for when
>>> people want to do more complex things.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, when writing my D book, I decided to spend more time on the
>> unicode stuff in strings than these basic operations, since I thought these
>> were pretty straightforward.
>>
>> But maybe the docs suck more than I thought. I learned most of D string
>> stuff from Phobos1 which kept it all simple...
>>
>
> Thats the thing.  In most cases the correct way to do something in D, does
> end up being rather nice.  However, its often a bit of a challenge finding
> the that correct way!
>
> When I had my troubles I expected to find the library solutions in
> std.string (remember I rarely use D's string processing utilities). It
> never really occurred to me that I might want to check std.array for the
> function I wanted. So what it std.array is imported when I import
> std.string, as a programmer I still had no idea 'split()' was there!
>
> At the very least the documentation for std.string should say something
> along the lines of:
>
> "The libraries std.unicode and std.array also include a number of
> functions that operate on strings, so if what you are looking for isn't
> here, try looking there."
>

Or just alias the functions useful for string processing...
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