Getting equivalent elements in a range/array

[Andrej M.]

I want to turn this:
auto arr = [1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4];

into this:
auto arr2 = [[1, 1], [2], [3], [4, 4]];

I want an array of arrays of the same elements. Lazy or not, I don't care.

I thought I could get away with this inside some while loop:
auto equals = array(filter!a == b(arr));
arr = arr[equals.length-1..$];

Nope.

I need this for some buffered output, where the requirement is the elements of 
the buffer all need to have the same properties so a function can output a 
buffer of elements in one call instead of calling the function for each element 
(the function call is expensive).

Removing an object from a range

[Andrej M.]

I can't seem to find an easy remove method in std.algorithm that takes an 
object and a range (an array in this case) and removes any matches from the 
range. I'm using this snippet for now:

private DrawingElement[] elements;

public override void Remove(DrawingElement d)
{
foreach (i, child; elements)
{
if (child == d)
{
elements = remove(elements, i);
break;
}
}
}

Ugly! :)

It's a direct port from some C# code so don't mind the silly variable names.

Stoping VS2005 from closing the damn console window

[Andrej M.]

I'm trying to get VS 2005 to stop closing the command window when I'm running 
examples from the Learn to tango with D book. (I'm using that VS plugin from 
Dsource.org)

I've tried running the examples with and without debugging, but the command 
window still closes down rapidly.

I've even tried using a function to wait for user input.. but that won't work 
either. I've no idea what's going on. Here's a peace of code I've tried:

[code]
import tango.io.Console;

void main()
{
Cout (What is your name? ) ();
auto name = Cin.get();

Cout (Hello ) (name).newline;
}
[/code]