Unexpected result with std.conv.to

[Jon Degenhardt]

On Friday, 15 November 2019 at 03:51:04 UTC, Joel wrote:
> I made a feature that converts, say, [9:59am] -> [10:00am] to 1 
> minute. but found '9'.to!int = 57 (not 9).
>
> Doesn't seem right... I'm guessing that's standard though, same 
> with ldc.

Use a string or char[] array. e.g. writeln("9".to!int) => 9.

With a single 'char' what is being produced is the ascii value of 
the character.