din.readf("%s", &floattype) should work?

[Ali Çehreli]

Michael P. wrote:
> Is din.readf (from std.cstream in Phobos) able to read floats when using %s as the format specifier?
> When I used this:
> din.readf( "%s", &somedouble );
> somedouble will still be nan after receiving input from the user.
> But when I use:
> din.readf( "%f", &somedouble );
> everything goes as planned.
> Is this to be expected?
> 

Reading Stream.vreadf in dmd/src/phobos/std/stream.d, I see that %s 
means "string".

It means "string" for output as well. Objects of any type can be 
converted to string and outputted that way. The member function toString 
is used for user defined types.

Ali