Quick question

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Monday, 1 February 2021 at 16:19:13 UTC, Ruby The Roobster 
wrote:
> Thanks. However for a char[], .sizeof = .length because a char 
> is one byte.

Nope, char[].sizeof is a platform-specific constant not related 
to the length at all.

void main() {
         import std.stdio;
         char[] a = "test".dup;
         writeln(a.sizeof); // 8 on 32 bit, 16 on 64 bit 
independent of content
         writeln(a.length); // 4 because of the content "test"
}


With a static array sizeof and length would happen to match but a 
dynamic array is different. sizeof is the size of the length and 
pointer, not the content.