"John Colvin" <john.loughran.col...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 13:16:38 UTC, Jerry wrote: >> "bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com> writes: >> >>> Jerry: >>> >>>> If I do >>>> >>>> f.readf("%s %s", &l, &i); >>>> >>>> it fails if the whitespace is a tab. >>> >>> In you can use byLine, followed by a split, and then assignment of the >>> pieces, >>> followed by to!int where necessary. >> >> I actually can't use byLine in this instance. I'm really wanting the %s >> behavior of scanf(). > > If you really need/want fscanf behaviour then just use it: > > import core.stdc.stdio : fscanf;
Thanks, I forgot the obvious. It would be nice to have a way to do the same thing in D formatted reading. Does it seem like it would be useful to specify this kind of thing? For example, you could have: %' ' grabs all isWhite() chars %t reads a single token - all chars !isWhite() Any takers? Jerry