Remove function?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 12/04/2013 01:59 PM, seany wrote:
> Hello, I want to remove a car form a string.
>
> hence i used the remove function from std.algorithm, and i had this :
>
> string stripPar(string S)
> {
>      while(S[0] == '(' && S[S.length-1] == ')')
>      {
>
>           S = S.remove(0);
>           S = S.remove(S.length-1);
>      }
>
>      return S;
>

A shorter alternative:

import std.algorithm;

string stripPar(string S)
{
     return S.stripLeft('(').stripRight(')');
}

Ali