On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 05:15:26PM +0000, Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > I have a dynamic array of dstrings and I’m spending dstrings to it. At > one point I need to append a zero-length string just to increase the > length of the array by one but I can’t have a slot containing garbage. > I thought about ++arr.length - would that work, while giving me valid > contents to the final slot ?
Unlike C/C++, the D runtime always ensures that things are initialized unless you explicitly tell it not to (via void-initialization). So ++arr.length will work; the new element will be initialized to dstring.init (which is the empty string). T -- If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell