Need help: Return reference slice

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn]

advibm:

> I would like to have something like that:
>
> char[] buf; // already filled array
> char[] partOfBuf = betweenTwoStrings(buf, "START", "END");
> partOfBuf[0] = 'a'; // THIS should also change the 'buf' 
> variable
> assert(buf[0] == 'a');
>
> Thanks for your help

To do this you don't need to return a ref slice. A slice 
suffices. But D strings/wstrings/dstrings are made of immutable 
chars, so you can't modify them. So you need to work with char[] 
or dchar[] or wchar[].

Bye,
bearophile