A-M baby

Task/Mad-Libs/D/mad-libs.d

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+import std.stdio, std.regex, std.algorithm, std.string, std.array;
+
+void main() {
+    writeln("Enter a story template, terminated by an empty line:");
+    string story;
+    while (true) {
+        auto line = stdin.readln().strip();
+        if (line.empty) break;
+        story ~= line ~ "\n";
+    }
+
+    auto re = regex("<.+?>", "g");
+    auto fields = story.match(re).map!q{a.hit}().array().sort().uniq();
+    foreach (field; fields) {
+        writef("Enter a value for '%s': ", field[1 .. $ - 1]);
+        story = story.replace(field, stdin.readln().strip());
+    }
+
+    writeln("\nThe story becomes:\n", story);
+}