On Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 17:59:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Probably what you're looking for is std.format.formattedWrite.
For example:
```d
import std;
void main() {
ubyte[65536] buf;
char[] usable_buf = cast(char[]) buf[];
usable_buf.formattedWrite!"Blah %d blah %s"(123, "Это UTF-8
строка.");
auto used = buf.length - usable_buf.length;
writefln("%(%02X %)", buf[0 .. used]);
}
```
Hey thanks! That does work with recent versions of dmd+phobos,
but doesn't work in gdc-10. For some reason it produces this
error:
```d
error: static assert "Cannot put a const(char)[] into a char[]."
```
Is there a work around involving `.representation` as alluded to
in this
[thread](https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]) ?
To get around the issue I built gdc-11.2 from source code at the
GNU site but the old version of phobos is still included, so no
dice.
