• monarch_dodra (17/17) Feb 27 2013 I have a text file, that contains text with escaped characters,
• Lubos Pintes (3/18) Feb 27 2013 And what about the opposite way? I like how Python is representing
• monarch_dodra (6/35) Feb 27 2013 using formattedWrite, I can print it out the same way, but there

"monarch_dodra" <monarchdodra gmail.com> writes:

I have a text file, that contains text with escaped characters, 
eg:

//----
hello\tworld.
this line\ncontains a break.
and this one a\x20binary character.
and this one\u0020an escaped unicode.
//----

The idea is that once parse line by line, I want 4 strings (1 for 
each line), but with the escaped characters parsed to their 
normal value.

I'm having trouble doing this efficiently. I can do it with 
std.conv.parse, but provided I preppend and append a double quote 
to my strings first. It's not the most efficient way to do it, 
but it works. It's kind of hackish though :/

I was wondering if there anything in phobos that could do this 
more naturally? Or in an "idiomatic" fashion?

Lubos Pintes <lubos.pintes gmail.com> writes:

And what about the opposite way? I like how Python is representing 
strings. Good when you want to partially inspect something binary.
Dòa 27. 2. 2013 19:39 monarch_dodra  wrote / napísal(a):
 I have a text file, that contains text with escaped characters, eg:

 //----
 hello\tworld.
 this line\ncontains a break.
 and this one a\x20binary character.
 and this one\u0020an escaped unicode.
 //----

 The idea is that once parse line by line, I want 4 strings (1 for each
 line), but with the escaped characters parsed to their normal value.

 I'm having trouble doing this efficiently. I can do it with
 std.conv.parse, but provided I preppend and append a double quote to my
 strings first. It's not the most efficient way to do it, but it works.
 It's kind of hackish though :/

 I was wondering if there anything in phobos that could do this more
 naturally? Or in an "idiomatic" fashion?

"monarch_dodra" <monarchdodra gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 20:37:01 UTC, Lubos Pintes 
wrote:
 And what about the opposite way? I like how Python is 
 representing strings. Good when you want to partially inspect 
 something binary.
 Dňa 27. 2. 2013 19:39 monarch_dodra  wrote / napísal(a):
 I have a text file, that contains text with escaped 
 characters, eg:

 //----
 hello\tworld.
 this line\ncontains a break.
 and this one a\x20binary character.
 and this one\u0020an escaped unicode.
 //----

 The idea is that once parse line by line, I want 4 strings (1 
 for each
 line), but with the escaped characters parsed to their normal 
 value.

 I'm having trouble doing this efficiently. I can do it with
 std.conv.parse, but provided I preppend and append a double 
 quote to my
 strings first. It's not the most efficient way to do it, but 
 it works.
 It's kind of hackish though :/

 I was wondering if there anything in phobos that could do this 
 more
 naturally? Or in an "idiomatic" fashion?


using formattedWrite, I can print it out the same way, but there 
will also be the trailing " " I'll have to chop off manually 
(hence why I have to pass through a formatted write first, as 
opposed to a straight up writef).