Format.convert problme

[grauzone]

Qian Xu wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> tango.text.convert.Format provides a nice function to convert anything 
> to string.
> 
> It works perfect except the argument is a pointer type.
> It will print the address of a pointer instead of its value
> 
> For instance: --------------------------------
> int* i = new int;
> *i = 10;
> Format.convert("{}", i); // <- the address of the pointer
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> How to let it print the value instead of the address?
> Because I wanna write a dump function to dump the value of any data type 
> (also void, null)

Check if the variable is a pointer, and if yes, dereference it:

alias typeof(i) T;
static if (is(T T2 : T2*)) {
	T2 i2 = *i;
	Format.convert("{}", i2);
} else {
	Format.convert("{}", i);
}