splitting numbers from a test file

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 06:09:38 UTC, Ali Çehreli
wrote:
> On 09/18/2012 09:56 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 04:03:44 UTC, Jonathan M
> Davis
> > wrote:
>
> >> The documentation says that it returns a range.
>
> > From:
> > http://dlang.org/phobos/std_array.html#splitter
> >
> > The documentation (copied and pasted) for splitter reads:
> >
> > auto splitter(C)(C[] s);
> > Splits a string by whitespace.
> >
> > Example:
> > auto a = " a bcd ef gh ";
> > assert(equal(splitter(a), ["", "a", "bcd", "ef", "gh"][]));
>
> It is unfortunate that there is also the other splitter, which 
> at least implies ranges: :-/
>
>   http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html#splitter
>
> Yes, the documentation can be much better.
>
> For example, the documentation for the second splitter above 
> looks exacly like the other one, except that one says "using an 
> element as a separator." while the other one says "using 
> another range as a separator".
>
> I think it is a ddoc limitation: Template constraints are not 
> included in documentation yet.
>
> Ali

Ali and Johnathan:
Thank you for your help. Also Ali thanks for your book, motivated
by this little problem I've started reading your Chapter on
ranges.  It is very helpful.

Cheers,
Craig