replacement for squeeze and removechars.

[Antonio Corbi via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 15:41:44 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 15:28:06 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying dmd-2.075.0-rc1 in one of my projects where I use 
>> `squeeze` and `removechars`. Both of them are flagged as 
>> obsolete and in the docs we are suggested to use functions 
>> from std.regex and/or std.algorithm.
>>
>> Does any one kow a one-liner from std.regex or std.algorithm 
>> that can take the role of those deprecated functions?
>>
>> Thank's
>> A. Corbi
>
> As Seb somewhat undiplomatically put, there are replacements 
> listed in the changelog.
>
> Use std.regex.replaceAll to replace std.string.removechars:
>
> import std.string;
> import std.regex;
>
> // old
> "abc".removechars("a-z");
>
> // new
> "abc".replaceAll(regex("[a-z]"), "");
>
>
>
> Use std.algorithm.iteration.uniq to replace std.string.squeeze:
>
> import std.algorithm;
> import std.string;
>
> // old
> "hello".squeeze;
>
> // new
> "hello".uniq;
>
>
>
> Though it would be nice to have these alternatives listed right 
> there in the deprecation message.

Thanks Meta and Seb!

Yes, the replacement is there 8), but as the deprecation message 
told me "to go to the docs", I only had in mind the library 
manual pages and not the changelog.

I agree with you that, at least, they could also be listed next 
to `squeeze` and `removechars`.

Thanks for your help!
A. Corbi