On Friday, February 27, 2015 14:42:17 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On 02/27/2015 02:29 PM, Mark Isaacson wrote: > > What's the idiomatic way of getting everything *before* the results of a > > call to find? > > > > assert("hello world".find(" world").what_goes_here??? == "hello"); > > > > In an article Andrei wrote a few years ago > > (http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx…) he mentioned a function > > like this with the name "until", but I can't find it or its replacement > > in Phobos. > > findSplit and friends in std.algorithm: > > import std.algorithm; > > void main() > { > assert("hello world".findSplit(" world")[0] == "hello"); > }
There's also std.algorithm.until if all you want is what's before, whereas findSplit gives you both what's before and after. - Jonathan M Davis