Sort characters in string

[Fredrik Boulund]

On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 09:25:20 UTC, Biotronic wrote:
> In addition, sort does in-place sorting, so the input range is 
> changed. Since D strings are immutable(char)[], changing the 
> elements is disallowed. So in total, you'll need to convert 
> from a string (immutable(char)[]) to a dchar[]. std.conv.to to 
> the rescue:
>
>     import std.stdio : writeln;
>     import std.conv : to;
>     import std.algorithm.sorting : sort;
>
>     string word = "longword";
>     writeln(sort(word.to!(dchar[]))); // dglnoorw


Also very useful information! Thanks. I was just realizing that 
sort was in-place as I finished writing my first post. It got me 
really confused as I expected it to return a sorted array (but I 
do realize that is a strange assumption to make).