mutable string

[Adam Sansier via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Is it possible to turn temporary char/wchar buffer in to a string 
to be used by string functions rather than having to convert?

I'm working with win32 and have to use char*'s. This requires a 
lot of in place case conversions and comparisons and such. I want 
to avoid the gc too.

I could use C strcmp etc but then I might as well just write the 
code in C.