How to use sprintf

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:21:16 +0300, Robert Clipsham  
<robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote:

> 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.

Try it.

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