Biggest problems w/ D - strings

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Reply to Sean,

> 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
> 

He might be using a D char[] as an oversized buffer for a c style string.