• Orgoton (1/1) Feb 25 2007 This may be an awkward question, but how do we get input from the consol...
• Frits van Bommel (15/16) Feb 25 2007 Example:
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= (5/8) Feb 25 2007 We use "readf", only problem being that it is missing at the moment...
• Jesse Phillips (9/12) Feb 25 2007 Your best bet would probably be the suggested std.cstream. However, just

Orgoton <orgoton mindless.com> writes:

This may be an awkward question, but how do we get input from the console? I
mean, like scanf()? It worked for numbers, but for strings I'm haveing trouble.

Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> writes:

Orgoton wrote:
 This may be an awkward question, but how do we get input from the console? I
mean, like scanf()? It worked for numbers, but for strings I'm haveing trouble.

Example:
---
import std.stdio;

import std.cstream;

void main(char[][] args)
{
     for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
         char[] line = din.readLine();
         writefln("You typed: ", line);
     }
}
---

For more Stream and InputStream methods, see 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/std_stream.html

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:

Orgoton wrote:

 This may be an awkward question, but how do we get input from the
 console? I mean, like scanf()? It worked for numbers, but for strings
 I'm haveing trouble.

We use "readf", only problem being that it is missing at the moment...

You'll have to use something else, like the streams - or even scanf.
(std.cstream for the character streams and std.c.stdio for the C I/O)

--anders

Jesse Phillips <Jesse.K.Phillips+Digitalmars gmail.com> writes:

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:43:34 -0500, Orgoton wrote:

 This may be an awkward question, but how do we get input from the
 console? I mean, like scanf()? It worked for numbers, but for strings
 I'm haveing trouble.

Your best bet would probably be the suggested std.cstream. However, just
cause I want to I will point you to my readf function.

http://files.openomy.com/public/nascent/stdin.d
http://files.openomy.com/public/nascent/test.d

Please note that I wrote this when I really didn't know much about scanf
or any of the other functions, in fact I know little D and C.

It doesn't handle all types, but I do continually use it when I want input
in D, and it just feels more D like then those C functions.