This may be an awkward question, but how do we get input from the console? I mean, like scanf()? It worked for numbers, but for strings I'm haveing trouble.

Orgoton wrote:
> This may be an awkward question, but how do we get input from the console? I mean, like scanf()? It worked for numbers, but for strings I'm haveing trouble.

Example:
---
import std.stdio;

import std.cstream;

void main(char[][] args)
{
    for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
        char[] line = din.readLine();
        writefln("You typed: ", line);
    }
}
---

For more Stream and InputStream methods, see http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/std_stream.html

Orgoton wrote:

> This may be an awkward question, but how do we get input from the
> console? I mean, like scanf()? It worked for numbers, but for strings
> I'm haveing trouble.

We use "readf", only problem being that it is missing at the moment...

You'll have to use something else, like the streams - or even scanf.
(std.cstream for the character streams and std.c.stdio for the C I/O)

--anders

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:43:34 -0500, Orgoton wrote:

> This may be an awkward question, but how do we get input from the console? I mean, like scanf()? It worked for numbers, but for strings I'm haveing trouble.

Your best bet would probably be the suggested std.cstream. However, just cause I want to I will point you to my readf function.

http://files.openomy.com/public/nascent/stdin.d http://files.openomy.com/public/nascent/test.d

Please note that I wrote this when I really didn't know much about scanf or any of the other functions, in fact I know little D and C.

It doesn't handle all types, but I do continually use it when I want input in D, and it just feels more D like then those C functions.