best way to convert string array of floats to a float array

[Stephen Jones]

On Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 02:05:18 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 02:03:40 UTC, Stephen Jones wrote:
>> When it comes to reading float data from a text file into a 
>> float array is there a better option than reading the data 
>> into a string array and then stepping though the array and 
>> converting the values into a float array:
>>
>> string[] textData=read text data;
>> float[] f;
>>
>> foreach(string s; textData){
>>    f~=to!(float)(s);
>> }
>
> auto flist = textDataRange.map!(a => a.to!float).array();

Thanks Brad. This converts the string into an auto type, but I 
need to dump the data in the auto into a float array:

auto f=map!(to!(float))(split(chompPrefix(s, "lno:")));

float[] dat;
dat~=f;

The above won't compile complaining that "Cannot append type 
Result to type float[]"