On Thursday, 30 December 2021 at 18:07:15 UTC, eugene wrote: > On Thursday, 30 December 2021 at 17:52:20 UTC, eugene wrote: > much better than my initial You can also write ```d auto s = cast(string)b; // or cast(string)(b) ``` instead of ```d char[] s = cast(char[])b[0 .. $]; ```