Input handling? (newbie alert!)

[Cavalary]

Well, I was just looking through examples, and if those used scanf
I assumed that was the way to go...
Thanks, actually learned a few more things out of this (auto and
try). No idea what the parameter after catch is supposed to do,
what cast is or how to use parse since it was just mentioned, but
at least now I know what to look up info for :)

No idea what got into me to try to teach myself some programming
(and particularly something as advanced as D) these days. Haven't
coded something that compiled in some 9 years (and that was
Pascal, in 9th-10th grade). No scripting either in at least 5
(that's if staring in bewilderment at the Ruby code of an RPG
Maker XP project I was working on at the time even counts as
scripting). Only poked around with a little XHTML and CSS and took
a "let's see what happens if I change this" approach with the PHP
in my blog's theme, but not even that in some 2 years.
So not much of anything to base further learning on and a high
likelihood of saying I had enough and forgetting all about it
again if my mind will get twisted in knots over some concept, so
trying to be very "hands on" and putting away anything that
doesn't immediately make sense in hopes it will later. Let's see
if anything comes out of it :)