Biggest problems w/ D - strings

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Oskar Linde" <oskar.lindeREM at OVEgmail.com> wrote in message 
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> C. Dunn wrote:
>
>> As for your follow-up, I thought that
>>   char abc[32];
>> would initialize abc to 32 zeroes automatically.  Am I wrong?
>
> chars are initialized to 0xff

There are a few ways to get that initialized to 0 in the struct, tho:

1) Just write the initializer in the struct.

struct S
{
    char[32] abc = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
    0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0];
}

Kind of ugly, but straightforward.

2) Typedef a zero-init char type.

typedef char zchar = 0;

struct S
{
    zchar[32] abc;
}

You then might run into annoyances when converting between char and zchar.