Thanks for the informative reply. I am getting a run-time error with to!int(str). Apparently to!() seems to only support one-way converting other types to strings. That is part of the reason why I was getting so confused in figuring out how to read in an integer value. But you guys pointed me towards parse!() and that does work with string->int.
So there is no scanf equivalent, but there is also nothing similar to C++ cin with the << operator? And as for Phobos not being included much in TDPL, makes sense. I hope they include a reference section on it in the 2nd edition after Phobos is stabilized. That would make the book near perfect imo.
