Formatted read of tokens?

[Jerry via Digitalmars-d-learn]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> writes:

> Jerry:
>
>> If I do
>>
>> f.readf("%s %s", &l, &i);
>>
>> it fails if the whitespace is a tab.
>
> In you can use byLine, followed by a split, and then assignment of the pieces,
> followed by to!int where necessary.

I actually can't use byLine in this instance.  I'm really wanting the %s
behavior of scanf().