a function like writeln that returns a string rather than writes to a file

[dan]

On Saturday, 2 May 2020 at 02:49:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 5/1/20 10:40 PM, dan wrote:
>> On Saturday, 2 May 2020 at 02:29:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 02:22:42AM +0000, dan via 
>>> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>     import std.format : format;
>>>     string str = format("%s %s %s", obj1, obj2, obj3);
>>>
>>>
>>> T
>> 
>> Thanks HS!
>> 
>> That looks like a good move, if format will do the string 
>> conversion for me.
>> 
>> But one thing that would be troublesome is that i would have 
>> to make sure to count up the %s so that they match the number 
>> of arguments.  I would like to do without that, just like 
>> writeln does.
>
> import std.conv: text;
>
> string str = text(obj1, " ", obj2, " ", obj3);
>
> -Steve

Awesome, thanks Steve.  That's perfect.  So the function i was 
looking for was text (or, i guess, std.conv.text).

dan