Reply to Jarrett,
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's scope! No worries mate! ;-)
But seriously, it does sound heavyweight compared to a single sscanf
function call.
Honestly, std.stream is just barely functional enough to write the
simplest stream code, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it
takes to scan strings with it. Not much worse than what it takes to
do it with std::stream in c++ though.
I'm really talking out of my ass though, because I can probably count
on one hand how many times written code to use scanf or stringstream
in my life. If I have to parse input I'm much more likely to reach
for the regexp hammer or write a simpler parser.
I could never quite figure out why Stream.readf was not separated out
into a separate function in std.format. It probably wouldn't be a lot
of work.
do it, submit patch, become hero. <G>
