update

src/llmUtil.jl

@@ -546,13 +546,7 @@ julia> clean_json_response(text)
 """
 function clean_json_response(text::String)
   removelist = ["{", "}", "```", "json", "\n"]
-  for i in removelist
-    while occursin(i, text)
-      text = replace(text, i => "")
-    end
-  end
-  text = '{' * text * '}'
-  return text
+  return '{' * removestring(text, removelist) * '}'
 end
 
 

src/util.jl

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export timedifference, showstracktrace, findHighestIndexKey, uuid4snakecase, rep
         dataframeToCSV, dfToVectorDict, disintegrate_vectorDict, getDataFrameValue, dfRowtoString, 
         dfToString, dataframe_to_json_list, dictToString, dictToString_noKey, issomething,
         dictToString_numbering, extract_triple_backtick_text, 
-        countGivenWords, remove_french_accents, 
+        countGivenWords, remove_french_accents, removestring,
         extractTextBetweenCharacter, extractTextBetweenString, 
         convertCamelSnakeKebabCase, fitrange, recentElementsIndex, nonRecentElementsIndex
 
@@ -1139,9 +1139,38 @@ function nonRecentElementsIndex(vectorlength::Integer, n::Integer)
   return 1:(vectorlength-n)
 end
 
+""" Remove specified substrings from text.
 
+Removes all occurrences of each string in `removelist` from the input text
+by repeatedly replacing them with empty strings until none remain.
 
+# Arguments
+- `text::String`
+  The input string to modify.
+- `removelist::Vector{String}`
+  A vector of substrings to remove from the text.
 
+# Return
+- `String`: The text with all specified substrings removed.
+
+# Examples
+```jldoctest
+julia> using GeneralUtils
+julia> removestring("hello world", ["l", " "])
+"heoword"
+julia> removestring("foo bar baz", ["bar", " "])
+"foobaz"
+```
+"""
+function removestring(text::String, removelist::Vector{String})::String
+  for i in removelist
+    while occursin(i, text)
+      text = replace(text, i => "")
+    end
+  end
+
+  return string(text)
+end