• Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> Jan 01 2011
• Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Jan 02 2011
• Mafi <mafi example.org> Jan 02 2011

Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> writes:

are there any other cstring -> dstring functions than to!string(char*) ?

something like to!(char[])(char*)

(the memory allocation bothers me)

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Saturday 01 January 2011 20:12:31 Ellery Newcomer wrote:
 are there any other cstring -> dstring functions than to!string(char*) ?
 
 something like to!(char[])(char*)
 
 (the memory allocation bothers me)


to!(char[])() should work just fine, but I believe that you're going to have to 
have a memory allocation regardless, since a D array can't refer to an
arbitrary 
pointer. A D array and a C/C++ array are two different different things, even 
though a D array uses a C/C++ array internally. A D array is able to be resized 
and reallocated and the like in a way that a C/C++ array can't be.

- Jonathan M Davis

Mafi <mafi example.org> writes:

Am 02.01.2011 05:12, schrieb Ellery Newcomer:
 are there any other cstring -> dstring functions than to!string(char*) ?

 something like to!(char[])(char*)

 (the memory allocation bothers me)


You can simply make a slice. Indexing and sclicing works also with 
c-style pointers in D. Obviously $ is not allowed because bare pointers 
don't have a length.
poinetr[0 .. strlen(pointer)]
Be sure to not give this array to functions which relies on your char[] 
to be GC-allocated.