sort a string

[norm]

On Friday, 1 May 2020 at 07:38:53 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
> I'm making anagrams. According to the nextPermutation() docs, I 
> need to 'sort by less' to get all permutations. ... Except the 
> doc page doesn't mention how to do that, nor does 
> std.algorithm.sort show how to sort a string. ... and the 
> google results on the dlang forums from 2017 don't work.
>
> I've tried .byCodeUnit. , .representation. I've tried sorting 
> on the dchar. I've tried sorting the on string.
>
> The closest I've gotten:
>
> 	string word = "bar";
> 	string line2 = toLower!(string)(word);
>    	dchar[] line3 = sort(line2.to!(dchar[]));
>
> "Error: cannot implicitly convert expression sort(to(line2)) of 
> type SortedRange!(dchar[], "a < b") to dchar[]"

You need to convert the sort output to dchar[], e.g.
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dchar[] line3 = sort(line2.to!(dchar[])).to!(dchar[]);
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Cheers,
Norm