On 7/15/12 5:42 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
Another example of how std.algorithm is so hard to use (it's almost
tempting me to start swearing...):
How do you remove an item from an array in place?
It seems so darn simple, and yet it's not in std.algorithm (or
std.range). It makes something so easy so tedious.
Look for "remove" here:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html
Unfortunately the anchor called "remove" is swallowed by an unrelated
enum value (we should fix that in ddoc).
From the example:
int[] a = [ 3, 5, 7, 8 ];
assert(remove(a, 1) == [ 3, 7, 8 ]);
assert(a == [ 3, 7, 8, 8 ]);
Therefore, to remove an element in place:
int[] a = [ 3, 5, 7, 8 ];
a = remove(a, 1);
You also have a less stable but faster version:
a = remove!(SwapStrategy.unstable)(a, 1);
Andrei
