# Left and right division for strings

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/left-and-right-division-for-strings/109839>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** strings, arithmetic\
**Created:** [February 6, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/left-and-right-division-for-strings/109839 "2024-02-06T21:31:04Z")\
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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

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

```

could instead be

```julia
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.

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