Re: replacement for squeeze and removechars.

[Antonio Corbi via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 15:41:44 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 15:28:06 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying dmd-2.075.0-rc1 in one of my projects where I use 
`squeeze` and `removechars`. Both of them are flagged as 
obsolete and in the docs we are suggested to use functions 
from std.regex and/or std.algorithm.

Does any one kow a one-liner from std.regex or std.algorithm 
that can take the role of those deprecated functions?

Thank's
A. Corbi

As Seb somewhat undiplomatically put, there are replacements 
listed in the changelog.

Use std.regex.replaceAll to replace std.string.removechars:

import std.string;
import std.regex;

// old
"abc".removechars("a-z");

// new
"abc".replaceAll(regex("[a-z]"), "");



Use std.algorithm.iteration.uniq to replace std.string.squeeze:

import std.algorithm;
import std.string;

// old
"hello".squeeze;

// new
"hello".uniq;



Though it would be nice to have these alternatives listed right 
there in the deprecation message.

Thanks Meta and Seb!

Yes, the replacement is there 8), but as the deprecation message 
told me "to go to the docs", I only had in mind the library 
manual pages and not the changelog.

I agree with you that, at least, they could also be listed next 
to `squeeze` and `removechars`.

Thanks for your help!
A. Corbi