std.conv - custom string to struct conversion ?

[monarch_dodra]

On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 14:02:17 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 09:59:12 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
>> It wouldn't because "myFile.readf("Entry: %s %s", &s, &s);" 
>> wouldn't know *what* to pass to the constructor. AFAIK. I 
>> could be wrong.
>
> It should. Pattern matching is not target-aware for readf 
> patterns. It will simply find a whitespace separators and pass 
> everything to the left to one constructor and everything to the 
> right to the second one (trimming extra whitespaces).

Right, but in that case, the constructor isn't
this(string iString)
{
   //Copy string here
}

but rather
this(ref string ioString)
{
     //Use the string, and pop off all used elements.
}

There's a pretty big difference implementation wise.

Also, since we passed a S*, we can't call the constructor anymore 
(unless you emplace I guess)