• Knud Soerensen (6/6) Nov 14 2012 Hi
• simendsjo (16/21) Nov 14 2012 import std.conv;
• Vijay Nayar (13/19) Nov 14 2012 This might help.

Knud Soerensen <4tuu4k002 sneakemail.com> writes:

Hi

I am working with a c library which return a unsigned char *

As suggested on http://digitalmars.com/d/1.0/htomodule.html

I have converted it to (ubyte *).

Now is there an easy way to convert this to a string ?

Knud

"simendsjo" <simendsjo gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 14 November 2012 at 13:37:26 UTC, Knud Soerensen 
wrote:
 Hi

 I am working with a c library which return a unsigned char *

 As suggested on http://digitalmars.com/d/1.0/htomodule.html

 I have converted it to (ubyte *).

 Now is there an easy way to convert this to a string ?

import std.conv;
void main() {
     char[] s = "aoeu\0".dup;
     ubyte* bs = cast(ubyte*)s.ptr;

     // If you know the length, you can use a slice
     char[] s2 = cast(char[])bs[0..s.length];
     // this includes \0
     assert(s == s2);
     // but you could of course have used s.length-1

     // or you can walk and look for \0
     char[] s3 = to!(char[])(s.ptr);
     // note that to doesn't keep the zero terminator
     assert(s3 == s[0..$-1]);
}

"Vijay Nayar" <madric gmail.com> writes:

This might help.

import std.c.string;

void main() {
   // The input data:
   ubyte* ustr = cast(ubyte*) "bobcat\0".ptr;

   // Conversion to 'string'.
   char* cstr = cast(char*) ustr;
   string str = cast(string) cstr[0..strlen(cstr)];
   assert(str == "bobcat");
}

  - Vijay

On Wednesday, 14 November 2012 at 13:37:26 UTC, Knud Soerensen 
wrote:
 Hi

 I am working with a c library which return a unsigned char *

 As suggested on http://digitalmars.com/d/1.0/htomodule.html

 I have converted it to (ubyte *).

 Now is there an easy way to convert this to a string ?

 Knud