How to use sprintf

[Robert Clipsham]

On 25/04/2011 15:56, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:19:12 +0300, Steven Schveighoffer
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> The problem the OP has is he is casting buffer to a char *. He should
>> just use buffer.ptr.
>
> Casting a string to char* is exactly the same as using the .ptr
> property, as far as generated code is concerned.

Not when a string is defined internally as struct { size_t length; 
immutable(char)* ptr; }. Casting to char* is a pointer to the start of 
the length, not the pointer.

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Robert
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