Elegant way to remove the last part of a string?

Question

In Smalltalk, if given the string 'OneTwoThree', I'd like to remove the last 'Three' part, .e., In Squeak method finder notation: 'OneTwoThree' . 'Three' . 'OneTwo'.

The best I can come up with is:

'OneTwoThree' allButLast: 'Three' size,

but it doesn't feel very Smalltalk-ish, because it uses the substring length, rather than the substring itself. How would you code it?

Answer 1

'OneTwoThree' readStream upToAll: 'Three'

Answer 2

I usually use #copyReplaceAll:with: method, if the last string is not repeated elsewhere in the original string of course:

'OneTwoThree' copyReplaceAll: 'Three' with: ''

Answer 3

In the Moose project, there should be a method #removeSuffix: that removes a given suffix, if present.

Answer 4

If you need everything after only the last occurence removed:

|original cutOut lastEnd currentEnd modified|

original := 'OneTwoThree'.
cutOut := 'Three'.
lastEnd := 0.
[currentEnd := lastEnd.
lastEnd := original indexOf: cutOut startingAt: lastEnd +1.
lastEnd = 0 ] whileFalse.

modified := currentStart > 0 ifTrue: [original first: currentEnd] ifFalse: [original copy]