Deleting Entries from an Array

[Daniel Biehl]

Hello,

I play a little bit with D to learn something more about it. One
interesting feature is splicing of arrays. I wrote a little function to
delete some entries from an array of chars. I thought it was easy, but I
only get a memory access error (Speicherzugriffsfehler in german) under
Linux with DMD 1.015 and gdc 0.24 and on Windows XP only with gdc 0.23.
Where is the Bug? Me or Phobos/DMD/GDC?

module tt;

import std.stdio;

char[] cut(inout char[] s, size_t index, size_t count) {
    s[index..length - count] = s[index+count..length].dup;
    s.length = s.length - count;
    return s;
}

void main()
{
    char[] s = "Hello World";

    writefln(s.length);
    writefln(s.cut(1,1));
    writefln(s.length);

}

Greets Daniel