Multidimensional dynamic array of strings initialized with split()

[Ludovit Lucenic]

On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 16:22:46 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>
> Compiling with "DMD64 D Compiler v2.064-devel-52cc287" produces 
> the following errors:
>
> * You had byLines in your original code as well. Shouldn't it 
> be byLine?
>
> * You are missing the closing brace of the foreach loop as well.
>
> * "Error: cannot append type char[][] to type string[][]" I 
> have to replace .dup with .idup

Thank you for pointing out the errors, Ali.
I have updated the example.

>
> The following version is lazy:
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.array;
> import std.algorithm;
>
> auto readInData(File inputFile, string fieldSeparator)
> {
>     return
>         inputFile
>         .byLine
>         .map!(line => line
>                       .idup
>                       .split("\t"));
> }
>
> The caller can either use the result lazily:
>
> import std.range;
>
> void main()
> {
>     auto file = File("deneme.txt");
>     writeln(readInData(file, "\t").take(2));
> }
>
> Or call .array on the result to consume the range eagerly:
>
>     auto table = readInData(file, "\t").array;
>
> Ali

Thank you for the alternative approaches. This thread is linked 
from Credits section, if someone wants to find out more on the 
topic from the wiki.