• simendsjo <simendsjo gmail.com> Aug 02 2011
• Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Aug 02 2011
• simendsjo <simendsjo gmail.com> Aug 02 2011
• simendsjo <simendsjo gmail.com> Aug 02 2011
• Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Aug 02 2011
• Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Aug 02 2011

simendsjo <simendsjo gmail.com> writes:

I want to convert SomeChar[] or SomeChar* into 
PerhapsAnotherCharNullTerminated*, but std.conv doesn't work like this.
char[] a = "ao";
to!(wchar*)(a); // fails

toUTF16z converts char[] to wchar*
toStringz converts char[] to char*

Am I missing function(s), or do I have to combine them myself?

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Tuesday 02 August 2011 12:02:07 simendsjo wrote:
 I want to convert SomeChar[] or SomeChar* into
 PerhapsAnotherCharNullTerminated*, but std.conv doesn't work like this.
 char[] a = "ao";
 to!(wchar*)(a); // fails
 
 toUTF16z converts char[] to wchar*
 toStringz converts char[] to char*
 
 Am I missing function(s), or do I have to combine them myself?


The github version has std.utf.toUTFz, but it obviously won't be in an actual 
release until the next release.

- Jonathan M Davis

simendsjo <simendsjo gmail.com> writes:

On 02.08.2011 12:07, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 The github version has std.utf.toUTFz


Thanks, I'll try that.
What about the other way around? * to []?

simendsjo <simendsjo gmail.com> writes:

On 02.08.2011 12:27, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 On Tuesday 02 August 2011 12:15:00 simendsjo wrote:
 On 02.08.2011 12:07, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 The github version has std.utf.toUTFz


 Thanks, I'll try that.
 What about the other way around? * to []?


 I believe that it'll work with char* to string with std.conv.to, but I think
 that's it at the moment. Ideally, std.conv.to would do the conversions in both
 directions for all string types, but it doesn't do that yet.

 - Jonathan M Davis


toUTFz worked great. It's good to see how phobos are just 
doing-the-right-thing most of the time.
Are * to [] planned for the next release?

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Tuesday 02 August 2011 12:15:00 simendsjo wrote:
 On 02.08.2011 12:07, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 The github version has std.utf.toUTFz


 Thanks, I'll try that.
 What about the other way around? * to []?


I believe that it'll work with char* to string with std.conv.to, but I think 
that's it at the moment. Ideally, std.conv.to would do the conversions in both 
directions for all string types, but it doesn't do that yet.

- Jonathan M Davis

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Tuesday 02 August 2011 13:46:54 simendsjo wrote:
 On 02.08.2011 12:27, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 On Tuesday 02 August 2011 12:15:00 simendsjo wrote:
 On 02.08.2011 12:07, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 The github version has std.utf.toUTFz


 Thanks, I'll try that.
 What about the other way around? * to []?


 I believe that it'll work with char* to string with std.conv.to, but I
 think that's it at the moment. Ideally, std.conv.to would do the
 conversions in both directions for all string types, but it doesn't do
 that yet.
 
 - Jonathan M Davis


 toUTFz worked great. It's good to see how phobos are just
 doing-the-right-thing most of the time.
 Are * to [] planned for the next release?


Maybe. Hopefully. It's on the todo list. I don't know when it'll get done. 
It's on my todo list assuming that no one else gets to it first, but depending 
on when the next release is and how fast I am at getting to it (and how hard 
it is to implement - I ran into serious issues the last time that I tried to 
mess with std.conv.to), it may or may not be in by the next release.

- Jonathan M Davis