string to char array?

[Kyoji Klyden via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 15:53:33 UTC, Alex Parrill wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 15:07:58 UTC, Kyoji Klyden wrote:
>> quick question: What is the most efficient way to covert a 
>> string to a char array?
>
> A string is, by definition in D, a character array, 
> specifically `immutable(char)[]`. It's not like, for example, 
> Java in which it's a completely separate type; you can perform 
> all the standard array operations on strings.
>
> If you need to mutate a string, then you can create a mutable 
> `char[]` by doing `somestring.dup` as Dennis already mentioned.

The problem I was having was actually that an opengl function 
(specifically glShaderSource) wouldn't accept strings. I'm still 
can't get it to work actually :P

glShaderSource (uint, int, const(char*)*, const(int)*)

This one function is a bugger, been going at this for hours.


On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 15:38:24 UTC, Meta wrote:
>
> Note that this will allocate a new garbage collected array.

Thx for the heads up