• Sarath Kumar <sarath.kodali yahoo.co.in> Feb 23 2012
• Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Feb 23 2012
• Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Feb 23 2012
• "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> Feb 23 2012
• Sarath Kumar <sarath.kodali yahoo.co.in> Feb 23 2012

Sarath Kumar <sarath.kodali yahoo.co.in> writes:

Hi,

Is there an equivalent to vfprintf(const char *fmt, , va_list ap) in D?

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Thanks,
Sarath

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Friday, February 24, 2012 05:22:58 Sarath Kumar wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is there an equivalent to vfprintf(const char *fmt, , va_list ap) in D?


If you're dealing with C variadics, then your going to need to use C 
functions. D doesn't just recreate C functions (at least, the standard library 
doesn't). C functions get wrapped when doing so adds some benefit, but with 
something like this, there's no reason to.


If you're using typesafe variadics

void func(int[] arr...)

then you can just pass the array to the next function.


If you're using D-style variadics (which are similar to C variadics but 
include type information), maybe there is, I don't know. Probably. I never use 
them.


However, the typical thing to do in D is to use variadic templates. That's 
what writefln does.

void func(Args...)(Args args)

And with that, you can just pass the arguments on to another function.


http://dlang.org/function.html
http://dlang.org/template.html

- Jonathan M Davis

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Thursday, February 23, 2012 21:38:27 Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 On Friday, February 24, 2012 05:22:58 Sarath Kumar wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is there an equivalent to vfprintf(const char *fmt, , va_list ap) in D?


 If you're dealing with C variadics, then your going to need to use C
 functions. D doesn't just recreate C functions (at least, the standard
 library doesn't). C functions get wrapped when doing so adds some benefit,
 but with something like this, there's no reason to.
 
 
 If you're using typesafe variadics
 
 void func(int[] arr...)
 
 then you can just pass the array to the next function.
 
 
 If you're using D-style variadics (which are similar to C variadics but
 include type information), maybe there is, I don't know. Probably. I never
 use them.
 
 
 However, the typical thing to do in D is to use variadic templates. That's
 what writefln does.
 
 void func(Args...)(Args args)
 
 And with that, you can just pass the arguments on to another function.
 
 
 http://dlang.org/function.html
 http://dlang.org/template.html


And if your intention was to specifically pass on arguments to writefln, then 
you can just do it, since it's a variadic template.

void myWritefln(Args...)(Args args)
{
    writefln(args);
}

But if you're looking to specifically pass on a C variadic, then use C's 
vfprintf.

- Jonathan M Davis

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 05:22:58AM +0000, Sarath Kumar wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is there an equivalent to vfprintf(const char *fmt, , va_list ap) in D?



You don't need one. You can just write:

	void myWritelnWrapper(T...)(T args) {
		...	// insert your own processing here, modify args
			// if you like, etc.
		writeln(args);
	}


T

-- 
Life would be easier if I had the source code. -- YHL

Sarath Kumar <sarath.kodali yahoo.co.in> writes:

Thanks Jonathan and Teoh. I just have to pass the var args in my function to
writefln and Variadic templates is the right solution for me.

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Thanks,
Sarath