On 17/10/14 09:29, thedeemon via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 06:29:24 UTC, Lucas Burson wrote:// This is where things breaks { ubyte[] buff = new ubyte[16]; buff[0..ATA_STR.length] = cast(ubyte[])(ATA_STR); // read the string back from the buffer, stripping whitespace string stringFromBuffer = strip(cast(string)(buff[0..16])); // this shows strip() doesn't remove all whitespace writefln("StrFromBuff is '%s'; length %d", stringFromBuffer, stringFromBuffer.length); // !! FAILS. stringFromBuffer is length 15, not 3. assert(stringFromBuffer.length == strip(ATA_STR).length);Unlike C, strings in D are not zero-terminated by default, they are just arrays, i.e. a pair of pointer and size. You create an array of 16 bytes and cast it to string, now you have a 16-chars string. You fill first few chars with data from ATA_STR but the rest 10 bytes of the array are still part of the string, not initialized with data, so having zeroes. Since this tail of zeroes is not whitespace (tabs or spaces etc.) 'strip' doesn't remove it.
Side-note: since your string has those zeroes at the end, strip only removes the space at start (thus, final size=15), instead of at both ends.
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