• Vinod K Chandran (8/8) May 08 2021 Hi all,
• Imperatorn (2/10) May 08 2021 iirc that's toUTF16z
• Vinod K Chandran (2/3) May 08 2021 Thanks. Let me check. :)
• FreeSlave (6/14) May 09 2021 You may try using tempCStringW from std.internal.cstring. It uses
• Vinod K Chandran (2/7) May 09 2021 Thanks for the reply. Let me check. :)

Vinod K Chandran <kcvinu82 gmail.com> writes:

Hi all,
I am planning some win32 hobby projects. Now I have this function 
to tackle the LPCWSTR data type in win32.
```d
private import std.utf;
auto toWString(S)(S s) { return toUTFz!(const(wchar)*)(s); }
```
Is there any better way to do this ?

Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 8 May 2021 at 20:50:10 UTC, Vinod K Chandran wrote:
 Hi all,
 I am planning some win32 hobby projects. Now I have this 
 function to tackle the LPCWSTR data type in win32.
 ```d
 private import std.utf;
 auto toWString(S)(S s) { return toUTFz!(const(wchar)*)(s); }
 ```
 Is there any better way to do this ?

iirc that's toUTF16z

Vinod K Chandran <kcvinu82 gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 8 May 2021 at 21:26:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

 iirc that's toUTF16z

Thanks. Let me check. :)

FreeSlave <freeslave93 gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 8 May 2021 at 20:50:10 UTC, Vinod K Chandran wrote:
 Hi all,
 I am planning some win32 hobby projects. Now I have this 
 function to tackle the LPCWSTR data type in win32.
 ```d
 private import std.utf;
 auto toWString(S)(S s) { return toUTFz!(const(wchar)*)(s); }
 ```
 Is there any better way to do this ?

You may try using tempCStringW from std.internal.cstring. It uses 
small string optimization. However the api is internal, so I'm 
not sure how valid it is to use this function. The returned 
struct is a temporary buffer so you must ensure that you don't 
escape dangling pointers.

Vinod K Chandran <kcvinu82 gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 9 May 2021 at 09:34:00 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:

 You may try using tempCStringW from std.internal.cstring. It 
 uses small string optimization. However the api is internal, so 
 I'm not sure how valid it is to use this function. The returned 
 struct is a temporary buffer so you must ensure that you don't 
 escape dangling pointers.

Thanks for the reply. Let me check. :)