bytes, strings: add TrimPrefix and TrimSuffix

Everybody either gets confused and thinks this is
TrimLeft/TrimRight or does this by hand which gets
repetitive looking.

R=rsc, kevlar
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7239044

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/pkg/bytes/bytes.go b/src/pkg/bytes/bytes.go
index e3ee5b1d88..31cf89ea87 100644
--- a/src/pkg/bytes/bytes.go
+++ b/src/pkg/bytes/bytes.go
@@ -515,6 +515,24 @@ func TrimFunc(s []byte, f func(r rune) bool) []byte {
 	return TrimRightFunc(TrimLeftFunc(s, f), f)
 }
 
+// TrimPrefix returns s without the provided leading prefix string.
+// If s doesn't start with prefix, s is returned unchanged.
+func TrimPrefix(s, prefix []byte) []byte {
+	if HasPrefix(s, prefix) {
+		return s[len(prefix):]
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
+// TrimSuffix returns s without the provided trailing suffix string.
+// If s doesn't end with suffix, s is returned unchanged.
+func TrimSuffix(s, suffix []byte) []byte {
+	if HasSuffix(s, suffix) {
+		return s[:len(s)-len(suffix)]
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
 // IndexFunc interprets s as a sequence of UTF-8-encoded Unicode code points.
 // It returns the byte index in s of the first Unicode
 // code point satisfying f(c), or -1 if none do.