Converting from C const(dchar*) to dstring

[Danyal Zia via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 24 June 2014 at 18:34:31 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> You can do what he said, but you'll have to write your own 
> strlen function:
>
> something like:
>
>     size_t strlen(in dchar* s) pure @system nothrow
>     {
>         size_t pos = 0;
>         dchar term = '\0';
>         while(s[pos] != term)
>             ++pos;
>         return pos;
>     }
>     const(dchar)* ds = "hello\0";
>     dstring text = ds[0..strlen(ds)].idup;
>     writeln(text);
>
> works
It works indeed, thanks a lot! Any chance of making it into std 
phobos?