"Kagamin" <spam at here.lot> wrote in message news:lccftxangprboitrtvmh at forum.dlang.org... > On Friday, 31 October 2014 at 23:59:54 UTC, dajones wrote: >> is there a better way than doing... >> >> cast(string)(buf~"hoo") >> >> to get it to pick the correct overload? > > text(buf,"hoo") Thanks! chris