[Issue 6157] to!string should work for various pointer types

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https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6157



--- Comment #7 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> 2014-02-20 13:45:37 PST ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> The example is not good, dup duplicated only 3 chars, so the resulting strings
> are not null-terminated.

IIRC these used to be compile-time errors. But yes, \0 is missing.

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import std.conv;
import std.stdio;

void main()
{
    char*  cstr = "foo\0".dup.ptr;
    wchar* wstr = "foo\0"w.dup.ptr;
    dchar* dstr = "foo\0"d.dup.ptr;

    auto x = to!string(cstr);
    auto y = to!string(wstr);
    auto z = to!string(dstr);
    writeln(x);  // foo
    writeln(y);  // memory address
    writeln(z);  // memory address
}
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But nowadays I get the feeling a fromUTFz would be more appropriate.

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