On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:35:15 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:24:41 -0400, dcoder <dco...@devnull.com> wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > Is there anyway in D to convenient fill a string variable with a char > > say X times? > > > > So, I'd like to do something like: > > > > string divider( size, '-'); // C++ notation. > > $divider = '-' x $size; // perl notation. > > > > > > I thought I could do the following: > > > > const char divider[rowstr.length] = '-'; > > > > but the compiler complains about not having a constant integer > > expression. > > > > thanks. > > It's most likely complaining about rowstr.length not being a constant, not > the '-'. This works: > > const char divider[5] = '-'; > > If you want to allocate a new array on the heap with '-' in it, I think > there is a way, but I'm not sure how to do it. I'm pretty sure there's a > runtime function to do it. > > -Steve
Something like this will work on the heap: char[] divider = new char[5]; divider[] = '-';