On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 22:08:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
You use an asterisk and provide the width as an argument. This
one uses the length of the name of the program:
import std;
void main(string[] args)
{
int val = 999000;
writefln("[%*s]", args.front.length, val); // [
On 1/23/22 13:59, forkit wrote:
I would like to calculate the width of the format specifier dynamically,
at runtime.
You use an asterisk and provide the width as an argument. This one uses
the length of the name of the program:
import std;
void main(string[] args)
{
int val = 999000;
I would like to calculate the width of the format specifier
dynamically, at runtime.
e.g int WIDTH = something.length;
then my format specifier would be: %WIDTHs instead of %9s
// ---
module test;
import std;
void main()
{
int val = 999000;
writefln("[%9s]", val); // [ 999000]
}
On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 09:38:57 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka
wrote:
On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 09:08:46 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
Using `iota` here incurs additional computation and argument
copies that are actually never used, i.e. wasted work. So I'd
say go with `generate`, as that
On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 09:08:46 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
Using `iota` here incurs additional computation and argument
copies that are actually never used, i.e. wasted work. So I'd
say go with `generate`, as that seems the intent.
Isn't this normally a compiler's job to eliminate
On Saturday, 22 January 2022 at 23:54:27 UTC, forkit wrote:
On Saturday, 22 January 2022 at 19:55:43 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
thanks for the explanation. That really helped :-)
writeln( generate!(() => dice(0.6, 1.4)).take(howManyTimes) );
[1, 1, 1, 1, 0]
(or after reading Ali's
