http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4725 I always feel a bit lost when using string manipulation in pharo... hence I would like to introduce some extensions: - chomp (ruby like) - #padLeft: #padRight: (as a replacement for the broken padded:to:with:) - #copyFrom:to: extensions with several specialized methods (the classical way would be to support negative indices, but this will most likely break existing tools) camillo could you illustrate your request. Some tests would be the ideal way to describe them.