Testing ASCII chars above 128 (testing my translation code), I wrote this little test:

char[] test;
test.length=256;
for(int i=0; i<=255; i++)
	test[i] = cast(char) i;

// Checks char by char, and offsets them to "good" chars
remove_q1_Color_Names(test);	

printf("\nLine: >%.*s<\n\n",test[1..$]);

writefln("Line: >",test[1..$]);

This yields the following result fro printf:

Line: >               []0123456789.<=> !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ <=>             []0123456789.<=> !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ <

printf dumps the translated chars as planned.


Line: >               []0123456789.<=> !"#$Error: std.format
% messes up code

writefln on the other hand exits on the % character.



This is more of a warning to the writefln fans. Avoid using it for situations where a % *can* be part of a string you try to output. Ugly!


Back to prinft() for me again. Luckily when translating my code I kept printf() most of the time.

AEon

AEon wrote:

> writefln on the other hand exits on the % character.

Unless you write "%%", which is the way to output a % character.

> This is more of a warning to the writefln fans. Avoid using it for situations where a % *can* be part of a string you try to output. Ugly!

You just need to add a "%s" format, before the string itself...


Reasons like this are exactly why I wrote std.stdio.writeln
It doesn't have any such "special" characters, like % or so.

--anders

Anders F Björklund wrote:

>> writefln on the other hand exits on the % character.
> 
> Unless you write "%%", which is the way to output a % character.

Right, but since I am normally reading string from text files, a % would  require a converttion to %%.

>> This is more of a warning to the writefln fans. Avoid using it for situations where a % *can* be part of a string you try to output. Ugly!
> 
> You just need to add a "%s" format, before the string itself...

Ahh... ops... lazy me!

> Reasons like this are exactly why I wrote std.stdio.writeln
> It doesn't have any such "special" characters, like % or so.

:)

AEon