String created from buffer has wrong length and strip() result is incorrect

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:24:21 +0000
Lucas Burson via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:

> So given the below buffer would I use fromStringz (is this in the 
> stdlib?) to cast it from a null-terminated buffer to a good 
> string? Shouldn't the compiler give a warning about casting a 
> buffer to a string without using fromStringz?
if you are really-really sure that your buffer is null-terminated, you
can use this trick:

  import std.conv;
  string s = to!string(cast(char*)buff.ptr);

please note, that this is NOT SAFE. you'd better doublecheck that your
buffer is not empty and is null-terminated.
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