I just started looking into D. I compiled and ran my first program, but I have a question... where can I find a reference guide of functions? Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but I looked under "D links" and found nothing. There are many things I want to know, like how to time a certain piece of code in milliseconds with D, or what the string manipulation functions are. Or maybe I just misunderstood D and it doesn't have an extensive library built into the language. Please enlighten me :) Thanks.

terry_t wrote:

>I just started looking into D. I compiled and ran my first program, but I have a
>question... where can I find a reference guide of functions? Maybe I didn't look
>hard enough, but I looked under "D links" and found nothing. There are many
>things I want to know, like how to time a certain piece of code in milliseconds
>with D, 
>

You could use:
GetTickCount();

From std.c.windows.windows.

>or what the string manipulation functions are. Or maybe I just
>misunderstood D and it doesn't have an extensive library built into the
>language. Please enlighten me :) Thanks.
>
You probably want to look at phobos:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos.html

An *extensive* stl library is in the works however in my opinion much (not all) of the stuff  in C++'s stl is already available as part of the language in D.

-- 
-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

terry_t wrote:
> I just started looking into D. I compiled and ran my first program, but I have a
> question... where can I find a reference guide of functions? Maybe I didn't look
> hard enough, but I looked under "D links" and found nothing. There are many
> things I want to know, like how to time a certain piece of code in milliseconds
> with D, or what the string manipulation functions are. Or maybe I just
> misunderstood D and it doesn't have an extensive library built into the
> language. Please enlighten me :) Thanks.

The standard library ("Phobos"):
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos.html

The library has room to grow. If you're looking for a particular string   trick that doesn't seem to be in the library, ask for a hint here. Somebody's probably figured out how to do it.

I've got some primitive examples on my website: http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/tutor/. You're probably already too advanced for them. :)

Timing in milliseconds sounds like something that would be done through the OS. In D, you can directly access C functions (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/interface.html). I'm pretty sure someone has mentioned doing high performance timing in D, and surely they figured out how to do it, but I don't remember any details.

-- 
Justin
http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/

J C Calvarese wrote:

>
> Timing in milliseconds sounds like something that would be done through the OS. In D, you can directly access C functions (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/interface.html). I'm pretty sure someone has mentioned doing high performance timing in D, and surely they figured out how to do it, but I don't remember any details.

Actually it was in dig however I disabled the high-performace part (as it was causing problems) :(  You can go there to see the code I've commented out ).

In control.d

   /** Get the number of milliseconds the program has been running. */
   static ulong elapsedTime ()
   {
       ulong value;
       LARGE_INTEGER freq;

       return GetTickCount (); //Added by Joel Anderson
       /+if (!net.BurtonRadons.dig.platform.base.QueryPerformanceFrequency (&freq) || freq == 0 || !std.random.QueryPerformanceCounter (&value))
           return GetTickCount ();
       if (!digPlatformElapsedTimeCounter)
           digPlatformElapsedTimeCounter = value;
       return (value - digPlatformElapsedTimeCounter) * 1000 / freq;+/ //Causes access volition -> fix yourself if you really want such accuracy
   }

-- 
-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

There are a whole suite of timing classes in the synsoft.win32.perf module, available from http://synsoft.org/d.html.

These are likely to find themselves in Phobos pretty soon, just need a little "std."-ing. :)

"terry_t" <terry_t_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:c38d0d$2qtp$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I just started looking into D. I compiled and ran my first program, but I
have a
> question... where can I find a reference guide of functions? Maybe I
didn't look
> hard enough, but I looked under "D links" and found nothing. There are
many
> things I want to know, like how to time a certain piece of code in
milliseconds
> with D, or what the string manipulation functions are. Or maybe I just misunderstood D and it doesn't have an extensive library built into the language. Please enlighten me :) Thanks.
>
>

terry_t wrote:

[...]
> how to time a certain piece of code in milliseconds

Look into the samples at dhry.d.

So long!