sscanf() equivalent for D using Phobos library?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I could never quite figure out why Stream.readf was not separated out
into a separate function in std.format.  It probably wouldn't be a lot
of work.