Shortest way to allocate an array and initialize it with a specific value.

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 06/10/2015 01:22 PM, Adel Mamin wrote:
> ubyte[5] a = 0xAA; // Fine. Five 0xAA bytes.
> auto a2 = new ubyte[5]; // Fine. Five 0 bytes.
> Now, let's say, I want to allocate an array of a size, derived at run
> time, and initialize it to some non-zero value at the same time. What
> would be the shortest way of doing it?

Another option:

void main()
{
     auto a2 = new ubyte[5];
     a2[] = 0xAA;    // <-- Assign to "all elements"

     /* Alternative syntax:
      *
      *    auto a2 = new ubyte[](5);
      */
}

Ali