lib/text: remove_all accept patterns

[nit.git] / lib / standard / text / string_search.nit

diff --git a/lib/standard/text/string_search.nit b/lib/standard/text/string_search.nit
index b360212..deb4478 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/standard/text/string_search.nit
+++ b/lib/standard/text/string_search.nit
@@ -413,4 +413,11 @@ redef class Text
        #     assert "hello".has("ll")
        #     assert not "hello".has("lll")
        fun has(pattern: Pattern): Bool do return pattern.is_in(self)
+
+       # Returns a copy of `self` minus all occurences of `pattern`
+       #
+       #     assert "__init__".remove_all('_') == "init"
+       #     assert "abcd".remove_all("bc") == "ad"
+       #     assert "abcd".remove_all("[ad]".to_re) == "bc"
+       fun remove_all(pattern: Pattern): String do return split(pattern).join
 end