sscanf() equivalent for D using Phobos library?

[Bill Baxter]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM, BCS <ao at pathlink.com> wrote:
> Reply to Bill,
>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, rocknroll714
>>>>> <rocknroll714 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm looping through a text file using the File.getline()
>>>>>> command
>>
>> scope thestream = new std.stream.MemoryStream(thebuffer);
>>
>
> One new MemoeryStream per line!?!?

It's scope!  No worries mate! ;-)

But seriously, it does sound heavyweight compared to a single sscanf
function call.
Honestly, std.stream is just barely functional enough to write the
simplest stream code, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it
takes to scan strings with it.  Not much worse than what it takes to
do it with std::stream in c++ though.

I'm really talking out of my ass though, because I can probably count
on one hand how many times written code to use scanf or stringstream
in my life.  If I have to parse input I'm much more likely to reach
for the regexp hammer or write a simpler parser.

--bb