On Thursday, March 07, 2013 08:19:57 Jeremy DeHaan wrote: > > That's what toStringz is for, and it'll avoid appending the > > '\0' if it can > > (e.g. if the code unit one past the end of the string is '\0' > > as it is with > > string literals). > > I actually have a different question related to this now that I > think about it. Is there a similar function to go from a '\0' > terminated char* to a D string? Lately I have been using > std.conv.text, but I have also made a function that just parses > the pointer and copies its data into a string. I'm actually kind > of surprised that there isn't anything built into the string > class like this.
There is no string class. A string is simply imutable(char)[]. Nothing is built into string which isn't built into arrays in general. But if you want to convert from a char* to string, then just use std.conv.to: auto str = to!string(ptr); - Jonathan M Davis
