On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:01:31 +0000 (UTC), Ben Hanson <ben.han...@tfbplc.co.uk> wrote: > > == Quote from Justin Spahr-Summers (justin.spahrsumm...@gmail.com)'s > > "string" is actually an alias for "immutable(char)[]" (and > similarly for > > the other string types), so its contents are not modifiable, though > its > > length can be adjusted and contents appended. If you need to be > able to > > modify the characters, just use char[] instead. You can then use the > > .idup property to get a string afterward. > > I'm converted temp_ to CharT[] as suggested, but the conversion back > to a string is failing: > > _charset = temp_.idup; > > main.d(76): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (_adDupT((& > D58TypeInfo_AT4main14__T5regexTAyaZ18basic_string_token5CharT6__initZ),cast > (string)temp_)) of type immutable(CharT)[] to string
Sorry I missed this on the first run through. Since you're using typedef to create your CharT type, it will create a type independent from all the others, meaning no implicit casts to or from it. "alias" is the equivalent to a C/C++ "typedef", and that should fix the compilation error.
