• adamss3 (3/3) Jan 30 2012 Is there a direct analog to sub() in D2? The replace() function in rege...
• Adam D. Ruppe (5/5) Jan 30 2012 http://www.d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_array.html#replace
• adamss3 (1/1) Jan 30 2012 Thanks.
• Marco Leise (3/4) Jan 30 2012 The only downside of strings being arrays: a lot of typical string
• Jacob Carlborg (5/9) Jan 30 2012 If everything in std.array works for strings as well, shouldn't
• Jonathan M Davis (17/26) Jan 30 2012 You could quickly get into similar arguments with std.range and std.algo...

adamss3 <sadams58 woh.rr.com> writes:

Is there a direct analog to sub() in D2?  The replace() function in regex
seems a bit overkill for what I need.  I just want to substitute one string
for another.

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

http://www.d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_array.html#replace

import std.array;
string a = "test";
string b = a.replace("t, "p");
assert(b == "pesp");

adamss3 <sadams58 woh.rr.com> writes:

Thanks.

"Marco Leise" <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:

Am 30.01.2012, 16:57 Uhr, schrieb adamss3 <sadams58 woh.rr.com>:

 Thanks.

The only downside of strings being arrays: a lot of typical string  
functions are in std.array. :D

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2012-01-31 00:09, Marco Leise wrote:
 Am 30.01.2012, 16:57 Uhr, schrieb adamss3 <sadams58 woh.rr.com>:

 Thanks.

 The only downside of strings being arrays: a lot of typical string
 functions are in std.array. :D

If everything in std.array works for strings as well, shouldn't 
std.string publicly import std.array?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 08:16:25 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 On 2012-01-31 00:09, Marco Leise wrote:
 Am 30.01.2012, 16:57 Uhr, schrieb adamss3 <sadams58 woh.rr.com>:
 Thanks.

 
 The only downside of strings being arrays: a lot of typical string
 functions are in std.array. :D

 
 If everything in std.array works for strings as well, shouldn't
 std.string publicly import std.array?

You could quickly get into similar arguments with std.range and std.algorithm, 
as well as std.ascii and std.uni. Ultimately, functions are organized into 
modules based on where they make the most sense to ones writing the functions, 
and you import the modules that have what you need. You can't get away from 
having to know what module has what you need unless we get something like 
std.all which publicly imports _everything_.

And the folks who get paranoid about importing symbols that they don't need 
are going to tend to want modules to include _less_ rather than more. So, 
there's that to contend with as well.

No matter how you organize the functions, there will always been problems with 
it.

Ultimately, you just learn where what you need is. And in this case, a string 
is an array, so as long as you understand that, std.array should definitely be 
one of the places that you look for functions when messing with strings, not 
just std.string.

- Jonathan M Davis