On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:05:19 +0100, Matej Nanut wrote: > While we're at it: what's the best way to parse in a formatted manner? > For example, if I want to get 5 hexadecimal digits converted into an > uint? And I want to simultaneously advance the string? > > "sscanf" seems fiddly and unsafe. >
Check out readf: http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/ std_stream.html#readf You'll need to wrap the string in a Stream interface (MemoryStream?), but since you're looking for advance-on-read, you want stream semantics anyhow. Justin
