string to char array?

[Kyoji Klyden via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 19:41:03 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> 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.

Awesome thankyou very much for all your help!(and ofcourse 
everyone else who posted, too!)