On Sunday 09 January 2011 15:19:31 Jimmy Cao wrote: > I think the tr, replace, and translate functions are a bit awkward.
Really? I use replace() fairly heavily in string-processing code, and I don't see anything about it which could be considered awkward. tr() is definitely cool. I do think that it is a bit awkward if you want to deal with the modifiers, but my only real gripe is that I can't replace a character with a string of characters (e.g. replace all ":" with " - ") or a string of characters with a single character (e.g. replace all " - " with ":"). But I don't see a good way to do that. Maybe something with regexes would be better. I don't know. But the alternative to tr() in many cases, is multiple calls to replace(), which would cause unnecessary heap allocations. - Jonthaan M Davis
