string to char array?

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 19:30:58 UTC, Kyoji Klyden wrote:
> Okay, so it's primarily an interfacing with C problem that 
> started all this? (My brain is just completely scrambled at 
> this point xP )

Yeah, you wanted to call glShaderSource, which is a C function 
and as such it's not aware of D slices. So things get more 
complicated than they would be in D alone.

> So pretty much the slice gives you the pointer to the start of 
> the array in memory and also how many elements are in the array.

Yes.

> Then depending on the array type it'll jump that many bytes for 
> each element. (So 5 indexes in an int array, would start at 
> address 0xblahblah00 , then go to 0xblahblah04, until it 
> reaches 0xblahblah16(?) or something like that)

Yes.

> If I FINALLY have it right, then that makes alot of sense 
> actually.

Sweet.