Hi there, I want to call a C function that upcases a string. I have something working, I just want to check in here to see if there's a better approach that I'm missing. I ask because `std.string.toStringZ()` returns an `immutable char *`.

As far as I can tell, I have two options:

1. Make the extern definition accept immutable.
2. Cast to `char *`.

I opted for 2 because it seems that 1 would be confusing - the definition says immutable, but it mutates the string.

Anyway, is this the D way to mutate a string from C, or is there another approach I'm unaware of?

```
extern (C) void upcase(char *);

import std.stdio;
import std.string;

void main() {
  auto s = "hello d";
  auto cs = cast (char *) std.string.toStringz(s);
  upcase(cs);
  writeln(std.string.fromStringz(cs));
}
```

It also works with:

```
extern (C) void upcase(immutable char *);

import std.stdio;
import std.string;

void main() {
  auto s = "hello d";
  auto cs = std.string.toStringz(s);
  upcase(cs);
  writeln(std.string.fromStringz(cs));
}
```

but it seems that "immutable" is a lie in that case.

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