On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 02:53:24PM +0430, Bahman Movaqar via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On 07/11/2016 02:44 PM, ketmar wrote: [...] > > the fact that format can insert spaces. it is like: "ok, it can do > > spaces. i bet there should be some way to use any character instead > > of space. after all, the implementation would be the same, right?!" > > and then... oops. > > That's my story. > > Thanks people for your help.
Here's a cheating way of doing it: import std.stdio, std.range; writefln("%.5s", repeat('-')); It's cheating because the actual repeat is created by repeat(), but we (ab)use the fact that the precision flag is treated as "maximum number of characters" in the %s specifier to be able to control the length of the repeat from the format string. T -- INTEL = Only half of "intelligence".