char* pointers between C and D

[Ali Çehreli]

On 7/25/22 06:51, ryuukk_ wrote:
 > On Monday, 25 July 2022 at 11:14:56 UTC, pascal111 wrote:

 >>         const(char)[] ch1 = "Hello World!";
 >>         char[] ch2="Hello World!".dup;

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 > `ch1`is a string literal, just like in C, it is null terminated

To be pedantic, ch1 is not the string literal but a slice of it. "Hello 
world" is the string literal and does have a '\0' at the end.

 > `ch2` is a GC allocated char array, it is NOT null terminated

Yes. The only difference between ch1 and ch2 is that ch1 does not incur 
an allocation cost.

Ali