Skiping whitespace

[Ali Çehreli]

On 05/26/2013 05:03 AM, matovitch wrote:

> I am writting a simple parser for .obj file (mesh) and I would like to
> read 3 floats like this :
>
>     1.1       2.2
>
> 3.3
>
> So I tried file.readf("%*[ \n\t]%f%*[ \n\t]%f%*[ \n\t]%f",&x, &y, &z);
> who works with C function scanf but doesn't work here.
>
> Is there a simple way to parse this text ?

A single space character in the format specifier is a placeholder for 
zero or more whitespace characters:

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
     float x;
     float y;
     float z;

     auto file = File("deneme.txt");

     file.readf(" %s %s %s", &x, &y, &z);
}

Ali