Thank you, that is helpful.
On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 12:22:37 AM UTC-4, Yichao Yu wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Jeffrey Sarnoff
> <jeffrey...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
> > And although readline() yields a String, if you are asking for, say, a
> Int
> > or a Float64 value, you can add a second version of `input`:
> >
> > ```
> > typealias ParseableNumber Union{Float64, Float32, Signed, Unsigned,
> Bool}
> >
> > """
> > `input{T<:ParseableNumber}(::Type{T}, prompt::String="")::T`
> >
> > Read an integer or a floating point value from STDIN.
> >
> > The prompt string, if given, is printed to standard output without a
> > trailing newline before reading the input.
> >
> > days = input(Int, "How many days? ")
> >
> > """
> > function input{T<:ParseableNumber}(::Type{T}, prompt::String = "")::T
> > print(prompt)
> > str = chomp(readline())
> > return parse(str)
>
> Don't use `parse(::String)` for this. It is for parsing julia code,
> not for parsing numbers. Use sth like `parse(Int, str)` intead.
>
> > end
> > ```
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 1:47:27 PM UTC-4, Ismael Venegas
> Castelló
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> """
> >> `input(prompt::String="")::String`
> >>
> >> Read a string from STDIN. The trailing newline is stripped.
> >>
> >> The prompt string, if given, is printed to standard output without a
> >> trailing newline before reading input.
> >> """
> >> function input(prompt::String = "")::String
> >> print(prompt)
> >> return chomp(readline())
> >> end
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> El jueves, 27 de octubre de 2016, 10:16:25 (UTC-5), Aleksandr Mikheev
> >> escribió:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> How could I input a data from the console? For instance, I would like
> to
> >>> make such that user is able to input the value of x. Is there any way
> to do
> >>> it like in Fortran or something? I can't find anything in
> documentation.
> >>>
> >>> P.S. Also, I believe there is a way to input a string using readline()
> >>> function. However, if I do something like:
> >>>
> >>> a = readline()
> >>> "asd"
> >>>
> >>> then I will get "\"asd\"\r\n".
> >>>
> >>> How to avoid these excess symbols?
> >>>
> >>> Thank you in advance!
>
