Foreach with byte problems

[Ali Çehreli]

On 02/25/2011 10:52 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> So I'd like to print all values storable in a byte in hex representation:
>
> import std.stdio;
> void main()
> {
>      int counter;
>      foreach (byte index; byte.min..byte.max)
>      {
>          if (!(counter % 4))
>              writeln();
>
>          writef("%#.2x, ", index);
>          counter++;
>      }
> }
>
> If you run this, you'll realize that it doesn't print the final 0x7F. This is because in a foreach range literal (is that the correct term?), the left side is inclusive, but the right side isn't.

I've seen the same "problem" with enums.

import std.stdio;

enum E { x, y, z }

void main()
{
     foreach (e; E.min .. E.max) {
         writeln(e);
     }
}

The value 2 is excluded. Of course it's rare to use enums like that in a 
foreach loop as their values are not always continuous.

I found out the better solution before sending this message:

     foreach (e; __traits(allMembers, E)) {
         writeln(e);
     }

The difference is, the type of 'e' is string above. Finally, the 
following produces integer values:

     foreach (e; __traits(allMembers, E)) {
         writeln(to!E(e));
     }

Ok, good... :)

Ali