Re: Shortest way to allocate an array and initialize it with a specific value.

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 06/10/2015 01:22 PM, Adel Mamin wrote:

ubyte[5] a = 0xAA; // Fine. Five 0xAA bytes.
auto a2 = new ubyte[5]; // Fine. Five 0 bytes.
Now, let's say, I want to allocate an array of a size, derived at run
time, and initialize it to some non-zero value at the same time. What
would be the shortest way of doing it?

Another option:

void main()
{
    auto a2 = new ubyte[5];
    a2[] = 0xAA;    // <-- Assign to "all elements"

    /* Alternative syntax:
     *
     *    auto a2 = new ubyte[](5);
     */
}

Ali