It is quite hard to use readf for beginners as explained here by Ali and Adam.
https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
Quote from Ali:
> The solution is to use readln, which regrettably comes too late in the book:
Quote from Adam:
> For "%s" with a string argument, it reads ALL of stdin into that string.
> This means you need to send an end-of-file indicator to the program. ctrl+z
> on Windows does this, and ctrl+d can on Linux (you might have to hit it
> twice there; it doesn't technically send end of file, but can be read as it
> by the program if there is no other input pending in the buffer).
> This is quite bizarre for new users, I agree, but it isn't technically
> invalid.
> (my personal feeling though is readf is just a pile of confusion and should > almost never be used. I hate that it is introduced so early in most
> tutorials... I'd rather have it in an appendix for special cases only rather
> than like page 3.)
I would suggest to add a function readfln which solves the issue of readf.
readfln executes readln, strip #10 #13 and then executes formattedRead
Signature of readfln should be similair to readf
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdio.html#.readf
Comment #1 by robert.schadek — 2024-12-01T16:34:56Z