String slicing nomenclature

If you look at various string-manipulation libraries, tools, and programming languages, you will see a variety of different verbs used here, most of which are general and not location specific.

• remove — anywhere
• delete — anywhere
• strip — usually anywhere
• trim — usually on the two ends only: front/rear or left/right
• splice — either medial only, or anywhere
• chop, chomp — the rear end

Since there is little consensus here, you should probably just be explicit in your language:

s/^string//;      # delete_from_front(), remove_leading()
s/string$//;      # delete_from_end(), remove_trailing()
s/string//g;      # delete_all(), remove_all()