Wouldn’t returning a string_view make more sense?

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 4:21 PM Rhidian De Wit via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> C++ parsing has gotten a lot better since C++20 and C++23 with the
> introduction of *string::ends_with()* and *string::contains()*, but I
> feel like there's more to be gained.
> Python has a great feature called *string slicing* in the form of:
>
> *testString = 'Hello World!' *
> *print(* *testString**[1:11]) # prints 'ello World'*
>
> We can't mimic Python's exact syntax (to my knowledge), but I feel like
> this would be a great gain over the current *basic_string::substr() *since
> this new function *basic_string::slice()* would have a similar API to
> Python's string slicing; requiring a starting index and an ending index.
>
> The full function syntax would look something like:
>
> *string string::slice(size_t start, size_t end);*
>
> And be used like this:
>
> *std::string testString{ "Hello World!" };*
> *std::cout << testString.slice(1, 11); // prints 'ello World'*
>
> Sincerely,
> Rhidian De Wit
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