[Issue 1590] std.string.startsWith and endsWith please

[Bill Baxter]

d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1590
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> andrei at metalanguage.com changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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>              Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
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> ------- Comment #1 from andrei at metalanguage.com  2007-10-19 13:07 -------
> The functions hasPrefix(E1[] longer, E2[] shorter) and hasSuffix(E1[] longer,
> E2[] shorter) will be part of the next minor release and work with all sensible
> combinations of E1 and E2.
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Sounds good, but what module?  Doesn't seem to have much reason to be in 
std.string if it works with any types.  Perhaps it's time std got an 
array utils module with generic array manipulation functions?  (A la 
cashew.utils.array).   You know with "advanced" functionality like 
removing an item from an array, etc.

And if it's not going into std.string, I think there's a case to be made 
that std.string should still have a startsWith and endsWith (that just 
alias hasPrefix/hasSuffix) because std.string is where people will look 
for it and those are the names people will expect.



Either way I'll be happy to have the functionality in the std library. :-)

--bb