Re: Printing a C "string" with write(f)ln

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On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 12:46:59 UTC, Whirlpool wrote:

Hello,

When you are using a C function (from an external library) that returns a pointer on char which is the beginning of a string (I know that C does not have a string type, that they are just arrays of chars ended by '\0'), is there a simple way to print that string with D's write(f)ln, should I use C's printf, or something else ? What is the best way ? Because if I do

writefln("... %s", *pString);

it only displays the first character of the string, the value that pString points to

Thanks

sure:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html#.fromStringz

import std.string;
string dstring = my_c_string.fromStringz;