Doctor J schrieb: > Taken straight from http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/arrays.html, this doesn't compile: > > void main() > { > string str = "abc"; > char* p = str; // pointer to 1st element > } > > "Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (str) of type char[] to char*" > Of course this doesn't work. Try char* p = str.ptr;