Float to string with more digits?

[Almighty Bob via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 20:08:55 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:04:04 +0000, Almighty Bob wrote:
>
>> Is there a more accurate way to do a float and or double to 
>> string
>> than...
>> 
>> to!string(float);
>> 
>> As that seems to limit itself to 6 digits.
>
> Use std.string.format or std.format.formattedWrite.  std.format 
> contains
> a description of the various format specifiers.  You'll 
> probably want
> something like "%.12f", which formats a floating point number 
> with 12
> digits of precision.

that did it, thanks,

:)