Cannot cast char[] to string.

[Ali Çehreli]

On 11/14/2013 11:43 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 19:41:13 UTC, Agustin wrote:
>> I'm trying to use http://dlang.org/phobos/std_net_curl.html and when i
>> compile the same example i get:
>>
>> cannot implicitly convert expression (get(cast(const(char)[])address,
>> AutoProtocol())) of type char[] to string
>>
>> string address = "http://dlang.org";
>> string _data = get(address);
>
> `get` returns mutable data, one should respect it:
>
> char[] data = get(address); // or just use `auto data = `

However, that data can automatically be converted to string if get() 
were pure. (I can understand how such a function cannot be.)

A simple wrapper:

import std.net.curl;
import std.exception;

string getAsString(string address)
{
     auto result = get(address);
     return assumeUnique(result);
}

void main()
{
     string content = getAsString("dlang.org");
}

Ali