Range functions expand char to dchar
Matt Kline via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 8 11:28:38 PDT 2015
On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 at 18:21:34 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> By design with regrets:
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/m01r3d$1frl$1@digitalmars.com
>
> On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 19:40:29 UTC, Walter Bright
> wrote:
>> Top of my list would be the auto-decoding behavior of
>> std.array.front() on character arrays. Every time I'm faced
>> with that I want to throw a chair through the window.
At least I'm not alone. :)
> You can use std.utf.byCodeUnit to get ranges of chars:
A bit verbose, but I suppose that will do.
> /* Having char elements isn't enough. Need to turn the
> range into an
> array via std.array.array: */
> auto r = regex(joined.array);
> matchFirst("won't compile", r); /* compiles */
> }
If we have a range of char elements, won't that do? regex() uses
the standard isSomeString!S constraint to take any range of chars.
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