"H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message news:mailman.1.1335507187.22023.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > For example, just today I was playing around with a regex-based version > of formattedRead: you pass in a regex and a bunch of pointers, and the > function uses compile-time introspection to convert regex matches into > the correct value types. So you could call it like this: > > int year; > string month; > int day; > regexRead(input, `(\d{4})\s+(\w+)\s+(\d{2})`, &year, &month, &day); > [...]
That's pretty cool.
