I've never noticed std.conv.parse takes a radix argument, silly me. And will take a look at readf from std.stream, definitely.
Thanks! On 14 January 2012 01:20, Justin Whear <jus...@economicmodeling.com> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:05:19 +0100, Matej Nanut wrote: > >> While we're at it: what's the best way to parse in a formatted manner? >> For example, if I want to get 5 hexadecimal digits converted into an >> uint? And I want to simultaneously advance the string? >> >> "sscanf" seems fiddly and unsafe. >> > > Check out readf: http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/ > std_stream.html#readf > > You'll need to wrap the string in a Stream interface (MemoryStream?), but > since you're looking for advance-on-read, you want stream semantics > anyhow. > > Justin