formattedRead whitespace quirks (compared to scanf)

[Gordon]

On Thursday, 26 December 2013 at 00:22:14 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> Yah, that's intentional. scanf has its usefulness slashed to a 
> fraction because of the way it handles strings. People added 
> %[...] to compensate for that; I chose to just fix it.
>

I like the fixes, it just that the interface *looks* the same 
(format specifiers and all), but the implementation is different 
(and mostly undocumented? or perhaps I missed it...) - so the 
results were surprising to me.

Related, I've submitted a tiny patch to count parsed variables in 
a tuple, here:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1812

Hope this is the right way to send patches...

-gordon