• Taylor Hillegeist (49/49) Dec 05 2019 Learning all the ins and outs of the std library is fun. But

Taylor Hillegeist <taylorh140 gmail.com> writes:

Learning all the ins and outs of the std library is fun. But 
there are soo many hidden gems that its hard to tell when to keep 
looking and when to just write something. I was working on a 
split function with some particulars:

Split but keep exactly one delimiter at the beginning of each 
section
so if splitting on B:
AAAABADSFBBBBDER ==> AAAA BADSF BDER
BBBBURPBURGER ==> BURP BURGER
BBBABBLEB ==> BA BLE B

Below is my attempt (As far as I know it works)
'''D
import std;

auto splitB(T)(T irange, T isplitter)
      if (isInputRange!T){
     struct SplitB(T) {
         private T _str;
         private T _splitter;
         private size_t cnt;

         this(T instr,T splitter){
             _str=instr;
             _splitter=splitter;
         }
         bool empty() const{
             return _str.length==0;
         }

         ref auto front(){
             auto tmp = _str.until!"a!=b"(_splitter);
             auto tmp2 = 
_str.drop(tmp.count).until(_splitter,Yes.openRight);
             cnt = tmp.count + tmp2.count;
             return chain(tmp.takeOne,tmp2);
         }

         void popFront(){
             _str = _str.drop(cnt);
         }
     }
  	return SplitB!T( irange,isplitter);
}


void main()
{
     "BBAAABSDFSDFBBBAFFA".splitB("A").writeln;
}
'''

I guess there are two reasons for this post.
1. There are probably much easier ways to do this, I would like 
to hear about that.
2. This is one of my first complete range setups. Any coding tips 
/ critical comments would be helpful.