Modern String RemoveBetween

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RemoveBetween

Removes a pair of delimiters and the text between them.

Syntax

RemoveBetween( s, opening, closing [, removeAll] [, start] [, ignoreCase] )

Notes

• The delimiters go too, not just the text between them.
• removeAll repeats until no pair is left; the default removes only the first.
• An unbalanced opener stops the walk and leaves the rest alone, so a stray ( does not swallow the tail of the string.
• closing is searched from the end of opening, so a pair cannot be crossed.

Examples

#import "std/strings"
using strings

print RemoveBetween( "blah (text) blah", "(", ")" )       '' blah  blah

'' removeAll repeats until no pair is left
print RemoveBetween( "var1(34), var2( 73 ), var3(any)", "(", ")", true )
                             '' var1, var2, var3

'' An unbalanced opener stops the walk rather than swallowing the tail
print RemoveBetween( "keep (this", "(", ")" )             '' keep (this

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