String Basics

[Stewart Gordon]

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

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/builtin.html

"But after all, what is a string if not an array of characters? If the 
builtin array problems are fixed, doesn't that resolve the string 
problems as well? It does. It seems odd at first that D doesn't have a 
string class, but since manipulating strings is nothing more than 
manipulating arrays of characters, if arrays work, there's nothing a 
class adds to it."

Stewart.