On 10 January 2014 02:05, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:

On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 15:14:04 UTC, Manu wrote:

However, I think to get the expected result from unicode you need

string y = "Hello".byGrapheme.retro.find('H').to!string;

but I might be wrong.

Bugger that. This is not an example of "D is good at strings!".

I have 0 ideas how are you going to get same functionality in C with strchr. This small line uses quite lot of features to be reliably unicode-correct.

It's nice that it's unicode correct, but it's not nice that you have to be familiar with a massive amount of the standard library and you need to search through 4-5 (huge! and often poorly documented) modules to find the functions you need to perform _basic string operations_, like finding the last instance of a character...

My standing opinion is that string manipulation in D is not nice, it is possibly the most difficult and time consuming I have used in any language ever. Am I alone?