On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 15:30:52 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:24:21 +0000
Lucas Burson via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
So given the below buffer would I use fromStringz (is this in
the stdlib?) to cast it from a null-terminated buffer to a
good string? Shouldn't the compiler give a warning about
casting a buffer to a string without using fromStringz?
if you are really-really sure that your buffer is
null-terminated, you
can use this trick:
import std.conv;
string s = to!string(cast(char*)buff.ptr);
please note, that this is NOT SAFE. you'd better doublecheck
that your
buffer is not empty and is null-terminated.
The buffer is populated from a scsi ioctl so it "should" be only
ascii and null-terminated but it's a good idea to harden the code
a bit.
Thank you for your help!
