string to char*

[klickverbot]

On 9/11/10 3:00 PM, shd wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having a problem in passing a value to char* expecting function
> in D 2.0. Already tried:
>
> to!(char*)("my string");
>
> but it seems like there (Phobos) is no template like this. Then,
> tried:
>
> cast(char*)to!(char[])("my string")
>
> which looked ok, but i think it's not a proper way to do that. Most
> strings converted this way works properly, but once:
>
> char* string1 = cast(char*)to!(char[])("my string 1");
> char* string2 = cast(char*)to!(char[])("my string 2");
>
> resulted:
> string1 = "my string 1"
> string2 = "my string 1my string 2"
>
> I can't manage this problem, could You hint me?
>

Use std.string.toStringz to convert a D string to a C null-terminated one.

This asymmetry (no to!(char*)(string)) has been discussed once, but I 
can't remember the reason why it was not implemented right now.