New to D

[Mark via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Hello, Im a 3rd year Comp Sci student in Edmonton Alberta, Canada.

Ive learned how to use C, and dabbled in C++ in school. Im also 
in a Oop course using Java.

I picked up the book The D Programming Language by Alexrei 
Alexandrescu a few years ago.
Lately Im really wanting to get into D, as It seems like a better 
version of C, and feels like java in a way.



However;

Ive run into a bit of a problem while writing some code. Im not 
sure if Im doing something wrong, or maybe the things Im using 
are depreciated??

Code Blocks does not give any messages as to what is going wrong. 
I haven't configured anything, and am not familiar with messing 
around with IDE settings.

Its directly based off of the example on page 8.

here is the code that does not compile:


import std.stdio, std.string;

void main() { ... }

void dict() {

     uint[string] dictionary;

     foreach(line; stdin.byLine()) {

         //chunk = splitter(strip(line); ## errors because of 
splitter

         foreach(word; splitter(strip(line))) { ## errors because 
of splitter ??

         if(word in dictionary) continue;

         //writeln(dictionary.length);  ## gives 0 ??

         auto newID = dictionary.length;
         dictionary[word] = newId;


         writeln(newID, ' ', word);

         }
     }

}




Im not sure what Im doing wrong here.

modifying the code to just print the result of splitLines results 
in the entire line.
and just having splitter give a sting to print also errors.

Please help, thanks!