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Function std.algorithm.searching.commonPrefix

Returns the common prefix of two ranges.

auto commonPrefix(alias pred, R1, R2) (
  R1 r1,
  R2 r2
)
if (isForwardRange!R1 && isInputRange!R2 && !isNarrowString!R1 && is(typeof(binaryFun!pred(r1.front, r2.front))));

auto commonPrefix(alias pred, R1, R2) (
  R1 r1,
  R2 r2
)
if (isNarrowString!R1 && isInputRange!R2 && is(typeof(binaryFun!pred(r1.front, r2.front))));

auto commonPrefix(R1, R2) (
  R1 r1,
  R2 r2
)
if (isNarrowString!R1 && isInputRange!R2 && !isNarrowString!R2 && is(typeof(r1.front == r2.front)));

auto commonPrefix(R1, R2) (
  R1 r1,
  R2 r2
)
if (isNarrowString!R1 && isNarrowString!R2);

Parameters

NameDescription
pred The predicate to use in comparing elements for commonality. Defaults to equality "a == b".
r1 A forward range of elements.
r2 An input range of elements.

Returns

A slice of r1 which contains the characters that both ranges start with, if the first argument is a string; otherwise, the same as the result of takeExactly(r1, n), where n is the number of elements in the common prefix of both ranges.

See Also

std.range.takeExactly

Example

writeln(commonPrefix("hello, world", "hello, there")); // "hello, "

Authors

Andrei Alexandrescu

License

Boost License 1.0.