Why does formattedRead take a non-const ref?

Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 28 21:41:32 PDT 2014


On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 04:29:31 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 04:21:54 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
>> The first parameter of formattedRead is a non-const ref. Is 
>> there
>> a good reason for this?
>
> formattedRead takes an input range as the first parameter, and 
> consumes it as it is going through the format string. On exit, 
> the range will contain the remainder of the initial range after 
> all fields have been read and parsed.

Ah, thanks! I should have posted this in D.learn, sorry.


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