String Basics

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Heinz" <Heinz_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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> Thanks guys for your answers. I know it is a basic stuff, i used to work 
> with
> char[] in lower level languages but now i was used to the string type in 
> managed
> languages.

D is "managed" ;)  That's just MS's fancy term for "Garbage Collected."

> I'll use an alias for now but hope Walter to add a string type in phobos.

You'd be surprised, but char[] handles just about any kind of string 
handling.  I've never felt like I was lacking an explicit string type in D.