Re: Formatting floats and ints

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On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 17:11:07 UTC, Darts wrote:
Thanks! That works perfectly! ;) I'll remember they're called 
Format Strings now.

Tangentially related follow up: if I want to cast a string to a 
dstring... what are the rules for that? I'm getting an 
"object.Error@(0): array cast misalignment" message when my 
program crashes tring to convert a string to a dstring...

Casting in this case means reinterpreting the bytes of the 
`string` as if it were a `dstring`. For this to work, the string 
would have to start at an address and have and address divisible 
by 4, which it evidently doesn't.

Anyway, what you want is:

    import std.conv : to;
    string a = "Hello, world!";
    dstring b = a.to!dstring;