void buffer

[Nathan Reed]

Manfred Hansen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the prorgramm under linux dmd 2.007 
>  
> import std.file;
> import std.stdio;
> 
> int main() {
>         string str1 = "Zeile 1\n", str2 = "Zeile 2 \n";
>         const(void)[] buf;
> 
>         buf ~= str1; buf ~= str2;
>         write("test_neu.txt",buf);
> 
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> gives an error:
> 
> ~/dd/dmd/src/phobos/std/format.d(1983): variable std.format.formatGeneric
> (FileWriter!(char),const(           void)[]).formatGeneric.e voids have no
> value
> 
> Have someone an idea to fix this.
> 
> manni

You can't directly write out a void array, the standard library doesn't 
know how to do that since a void array basically means "I don't know 
what the type(s) of this data is/are".  You'll have to cast it to string 
before you can write it.

Thanks,
Nathan Reed