Left and right division for strings

Internals & Design
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I don’t work with strings much, but I have found myself in a few situations before where I’ve done things like

if endswith(path, ".jl")
    path[begin:end-3]
end

could instead be

if endswith(path, ".jl")
    path / ".jl"
end

That’s a really simple example, but I’ve found a few times when writing string macros, that there’s often prefixes or suffixes I know are there that I want to chop off.