Can't understand if deallocation happens?
Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 22 18:30:56 PST 2017
On Sunday, 22 January 2017 at 15:59:47 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 January 2017 at 15:51:01 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>> string str = "abc";
>> writeln(str.ptr);
>> str = "def";
>> writeln("last data: ", *(str.ptr));
>> writeln("old data: ", *(str.ptr-1)); // print nothing
>> writeln("old data: ", *(str.ptr-2)); // print c
>>
>> It's look like that there is some gap between data, because
>> `d` minus 1 should be `c`, but `c` I am getting only if I am
>> doing `-2`. Why?
>
> writeln("old data: ", cast(int)*(str.ptr-1));
>
> #old data: 0
>
> String is gaping by zero?? I thought they are continuously like
>
> abcdef
> ---↑
>
> Where `↑` is equal to `ptr`.
You have *two* distinct strings here. Why do you expect them to
be sequential in memory? If you want them to be treated as one
string, concatenate them.
auto s1 = "abc";
auto s2 = "def";
auto s3 = s1 ~ s2;
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