Biggest problems w/ D - strings

[Sean Kelly]

C. Dunn wrote:
> Kirk McDonald Wrote:
> 
>> C. Dunn wrote:
>>> 4) Not enough help for converting between D strings and C char*. 
>>> There must be conversion functions which work regardless of whether
>>> the D string is dynamic or not, and regardless of whether the C char*
>>> is null terminated.  I'm not sure what the answer is, but this has
>>> lead to a large number of runtime bugs for me as a novice.
>>>
>> The std.string module has the toStringz and toString functions.
> 
> I have a field of n chars stored on disk.  It holds a null-terminated string, padded with zeroes.  It is amazingly difficult to compare such a char[n] with some other char[] (which, by the dictates of D, may or may not be null-terminated).

I'm not sure I understand.  Why bother computing string length in the C 
fashion when D provides a .length property which holds this information?


Sean