On Thursday, 26 December 2013 at 00:22:14 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Yah, that's intentional. scanf has its usefulness slashed to a
fraction because of the way it handles strings. People added
%[...] to compensate for that; I chose to just fix it.
I like the fixes, it just that the in
On 12/25/13 1:06 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 12/25/2013 12:43 PM, Gordon wrote:
> -- in C --
> char a[100] = {0};
> chat *input = "hello world 42";
> sscanf(input, "%s", &a);
> -- in D --
> string a;
> string input = "hello world 42";
> formattedRead(input,"%s", &a);
> ---
>
> I
On Wednesday, 25 December 2013 at 21:06:46 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 12/25/2013 12:43 PM, Gordon wrote:
> In "C", the variable "a" would contain only "hello";
> In "D", the variable "a" would contain "hello world 42";
>
That is by design. Since a string can contain space characters,
the normal
On 12/25/2013 12:43 PM, Gordon wrote:
> -- in C --
> char a[100] = {0};
> chat *input = "hello world 42";
> sscanf(input, "%s", &a);
> -- in D --
> string a;
> string input = "hello world 42";
> formattedRead(input,"%s", &a);
> ---
>
> In "C", the variable "a" would contain only "hello";
Hello,
Trying to use "std.file.slurp" as generic file loader,
I encountered a quirk in the way formattedRead works compared to
the (standard?) scanf.
It seems using "%s" format does not stop at whitespace if the
"%s" is the last item in the format string.
A simple comparison would be:
-- i
