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Add readfln to std.stdio #10370

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dlangBugzillaToGithub opened this issue Apr 23, 2019 · 0 comments · Fixed by #10656
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Add readfln to std.stdio #10370

dlangBugzillaToGithub opened this issue Apr 23, 2019 · 0 comments · Fixed by #10656

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andre reported this on 2019-04-23T20:35:59Z

Transfered from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19820

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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
@LightBender LightBender removed the P4 label Dec 6, 2024
pbackus added a commit to pbackus/phobos that referenced this issue Mar 2, 2025
Compared to readf, these functions provide a less error-prone way to
read a single line of formatted input.

Fixes dlang#10370
dlang-bot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Mar 3, 2025
Compared to readf, these functions provide a less error-prone way to
read a single line of formatted input.

Fixes #10370
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