On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 at 22:47:35 UTC, Andy Valencia wrote:
So about fromStringz...
```d
import std.string : fromStringz;
import core.stdc.time : ctime;
void
main() {
string s = fromStringz(ctime(null));
}
```
Like that?
tst44.d(6): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression
`fromStringz(ctime(null))` of type `char[]` to `string`
Still seeking...
`fromStringz` is giving you a slice of a `char*`, typed `char[]`.
`string` is `immutable(char)[]`, so you can't assign `char[]` to
it.
You could:
* change the type of `s` to `char[]`
* call `.idup` on the array returned from `fromStringz` to
allocate a `string`
* use `std.conv.to`
