• seany (4/4) Aug 08 2014 The .., range operator, when used like this :
• Dominikus Dittes Scherkl (9/13) Aug 08 2014 Yes. [..] is exclusive the last element.

"seany" <seany uni-bonn.de> writes:

The .., range operator, when used like this :

string a = "abcd";
string b = a[0 .. a.count()-1];

sets b to "abc". is this the expected behavior?

"Dominikus Dittes Scherkl" writes:

On Friday, 8 August 2014 at 15:17:25 UTC, seany wrote:
 The .., range operator, when used like this :

 string a = "abcd";
 string b = a[0 .. a.count()-1];

 sets b to "abc". is this the expected behavior?

Yes. [..] is exclusive the last element.
So [0..1] is a single element [0]
That allows to avoid to always writing the "-1".
BTW: you can even use $ instead of a.count():
string b = a[0..$];
And if you like to slice the whole string, leave even the backets 
out:
string b = a;