Daniel-Constantin Mierla writes:
Does not make lot of sense in my opinion since it is
very easy to do
with substr:
head: {s.substr, 0, len}
tail: {s.substr, -len, 0}
striptail requied computation of the length and use of that in substr,
making it a bit too complex.
yes, striptail did, but strip is just {s.substr, len, 0}.
-- juha