Hmm somehow I missed that. Thanks.
On 3/6/12, Ali Çehreli <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/05/2012 04:32 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >> There's a really useful function 'translate' in std.string, used like >> this: >> >> __gshared dchar[dchar] MangleTable; >> >> shared static this() >> { >> MangleTable = >> [ >> '*':'p', // ptr >> '&':'r', // reference >> '<':'L', // left angle >> '>':'R', // right angle >> ' ':'_', // space >> ]; >> } >> >> string mangleType(string input) >> { >> return input.translate(MangleTable); >> } >> >> However I'm looking for something which translates characters to >> strings. Of course that also implies potential reallocation. Does >> anyone have such a function in some library? >> >> Note that I'm not looking for .mangleof, I need to work on strings of >> C++ names, not D symbols. > > One of the translate() overloads can translate from dchar to string. The > third example is exactly about that: > > http://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html#translate > > string[dchar] transTable3 = ['e' : "5", 'o' : "orange"]; > assert(translate("hello world", transTable3) == "h5llorange worangerld"); > > Ali >
