Why Phobos is cool

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 23:38:26 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Monday, 6 July 2020 at 20:47:36 UTC, Jordan Wilson wrote:
>>
>> echo 'import std; void main() { 
>> File("emu.sift","r").byLine.map!(a => a.splitter(" 
>> ").front.to!double).maxElement.writeln; }' | dmd -run -
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jordan
>
> IMO this still doesn't hold a candle to the awk version:
>
>     awk '{ if ($1 > max) max = $1 } END { print max }'
>
> With better library functions, though, the D version could be 
> much, much nicer. Something like:
>
>     stdin.byRecord.map(r => r.fields[0]).maxElement

Not in one liner form

readText("emu.sift").csvReader!(Tuple!(double))(' ').map!(x => 
x[0]).maxElement.writeln;

I wanted to us

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html#transversal

But that didn't work for a few reasons. It would be nice because 
this example isn't good if trying to do something with say the 25 
element.