char[] -> int or float...

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
> Ary Manzana wrote:
> 
>> Aarti_pl escribió:
>>> Gregor Kopp napisa?(a):
>>>> Gregor Kopp wrote:
>>>>>> Daniel Keep wrote:
>>>>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/std_conv.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much!
>>>> Okay, i figured it out how to do the conversion from char[] into a
>>>> float. I searched now for about 2 hours how to make this in the other
>>>> direction: float -> char[]
>>>> Or any other buildin type (int, flaot, double, etc.), but I couldn't
>>>> find any useful information about this in the documention.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any good documention outside there how to convert between
>>>> different types including char[]? Or generally a tutorial or
>>>> documentation about handling char[] and conversion?
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Gregor
>>> Please see to std.string module:
>>> char[] toString(bool b);
>>> char[] toString(char c);
>>> char[] toString(ubyte ub);
>>> char[] toString(ushort us);
>>> char[] toString(uint u);
>>> char[] toString(ulong u);
>>> char[] toString(byte b);
>>> char[] toString(short s);
>>> char[] toString(int i);
>>> char[] toString(long i);
>>> char[] toString(float f);
>>> char[] toString(double d);
>>> char[] toString(real r);
>>> char[] toString(ifloat f);
>>> char[] toString(idouble d);
>>> char[] toString(ireal r);
>>> char[] toString(cfloat f);
>>> char[] toString(cdouble d);
>>> char[] toString(creal r);
>>>      Convert to char[].
>>>
>>> Documentation for Phobos is far from perfect, but you can find most
>>> necessary things anyway.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Marcin Kuszczak
>>> (aarti_pl)
>> A "see std.string for convertions in the other way" would be nice in the
>> documentation (same for std.conv in the other way).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ary
> 
> Personally I think having them in seperate modules is a mistake. both
> toFloat(char[]) and toString(float) should be in std.conv IMHO!

Or just place a public import of std.string in std.conv.  That would do the trick without 
either module getting too massive.

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls