• Tyro[17] (30/30) Mar 22 2012 I'm using the following to read arrays from the command line (or
• Andrej Mitrovic (8/11) Mar 22 2012 Jesse Phillips has a cmdln.interact library that I think would work by u...

"Tyro[17]" <nospam home.com> writes:

I'm using the following to read arrays from the command line (or 
redirected file) but am having some issues that I have not been 
able to solve on my own. Would appreciate if a little guidance.

void f(T)(ref T a)if(isArray!T)
{
     a.length = 100;
     int i;

         if(i == a.length) a.length *= 2;
     a.length[--i];
}


     how do it terminate the input (or clear the buffer) such that 
subsequent calls to readf are not ignored?

     int[] i;
     f(i); // no matter how many time I call readf() after this 
point it is all always ignored
     double d;
     readf(" %s", &d); // not called


     how do i read a string[] such that whitespace (all or one of 
my choosing) delineate the string boundary?

     readf(" %s ", &data)  sort of does the trick for spaces but 
it leaves all newlines embedded in substrings.  Assuming that 
input is provided one string per line, readf(" %s\n", &data) 

line separated by spaces an exception is immediately thrown from 
std.format.

Thanks,
Andrew

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

On 3/22/12, Tyro[17] <nospam home.com> wrote:

      how do i read a string[] such that whitespace (all or one of
 my choosing) delineate the string boundary?

Jesse Phillips has a cmdln.interact library that I think would work by using:
string[] result = userInput!(string[])("Enter space-delimited values:");
But it seems he changed his nickname on github and hasn't reuploaded
the library yet.

In case you're ever reading from a file you can do:
string input = cast(string)std.file.read("filename");
string[] text = input.split();