C string to D without memory allocation?

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 21/12/15 6:41 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>
>> string myCString = cast(string)ptr[0 .. strLen];
>
> Thanks but does this require that one doesn't attempt to append to the
> returned string using ~= or such? In which case it is not safe, right?

Correct, ~= should only be used by GC controlled memory. Which this is not.