• Ryan David Sheasby (13/13) Dec 22 2017 Hi. Struggling to figure this out. At the bottom of this page:
• Ryan David Sheasby (6/19) Dec 22 2017 Nevermind. I've just figured it out from this forum post :-)

Ryan David Sheasby <ran27968 gmail.com> writes:

Hi. Struggling to figure this out. At the bottom of this page: 
https://dlang.org/library/std/conv/octal.html is a vague 
reference to using parse. However, when I use what I would assume 
to be correct based on this: 
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_conv.html#.parse.3 and the fact that 
in the octal page it says octal is also a enum, I see no reason 
this syntax shouldn't work:

import std.conv;

umaskVal = parse!octal(data.umask);

Yet I get an error saying the compiler cannot deduce which 
overload of parse to use... How do I do this parse? Am I going 
about this the wrong way? Is there a better way to parse a string 
as a normal base8 ushort?

Ryan David Sheasby <ran27968 gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 21:36:20 UTC, Ryan David Sheasby 
wrote:
 Hi. Struggling to figure this out. At the bottom of this page: 
 https://dlang.org/library/std/conv/octal.html is a vague 
 reference to using parse. However, when I use what I would 
 assume to be correct based on this: 
 https://dlang.org/phobos/std_conv.html#.parse.3 and the fact 
 that in the octal page it says octal is also a enum, I see no 
 reason this syntax shouldn't work:

 import std.conv;

 umaskVal = parse!octal(data.umask);

 Yet I get an error saying the compiler cannot deduce which 
 overload of parse to use... How do I do this parse? Am I going 
 about this the wrong way? Is there a better way to parse a 
 string as a normal base8 ushort?

Nevermind. I've just figured it out from this forum post :-) 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/nbvdebjxodabukfbeheq forum.dlang.org

All I needed to do was:

umaskVal = parse!ushort(data.umask, 8);