const strings (D1.0)
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Mon Mar 3 01:47:04 PST 2008
Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:27:12 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
>
>> Is this correct behavior?
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>> import std.string;
>>
>> const MM_REAL_STR = "real";
>> const MM_INT_STR = "integer";
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>> writefln(toString(MM_REAL_STR.ptr)); // --> prints "realinteger"
>> }
>>
>> I thought all literal strings were supposed to be zero terminated.
>> That doesn't go for const strings?
>
> The problem is that these are NOT strings, but fixed length character
> literals, and those beasties don't have trailing zeros.
>
> Try this instead ...
>
> const string MM_REAL_STR = "real";
> const string MM_INT_STR = "integer";
>
Ooohhh. Great. That works. Thanks a lot.
--bb
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