Re: another draft of the string algorithms

From: msackett_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-08-16 21:39:38

--- In boost_at_y..., rwgk_at_y... wrote:
> --- In boost_at_y..., Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer_at_g...> wrote:
> > >      void trim(string& [, characters to trim]);
> > >      void trim_beginning(string& [, characters to trim]);
> > >      void trim_end(string& [, characters to trim]);
> > 
> > I haven't felt an urgent need for these, yet.
> 
> I do!
> Has the Python string module been mentioned in this context
> already?
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-string.html
> 
> Most frequently used by me:
>   split, strip (seems equivalent to trim above), join,
>   upper, lower, expandtabs, capitalize.
> 
> Ralf

I must confess that when I prepared my feedback to Darin's original 
proposal I used the inventory of functions in the python string 
module as a guideline for suggestions for new functions.

What I think is most useful about Python's string module as a source 
of ideas is the fact that it already consists of free functions, and 
so can be mapped over to Standard C++ more easily and compatibly than 
an approach that relies on creating a new string class.