On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 12:46:59 UTC, Whirlpool wrote:
Hello,
When you are using a C function (from an external library) that
returns a pointer on char which is the beginning of a string (I
know that C does not have a string type, that they are just
arrays of chars ended by '\0'), is there a simple way to print
that string with D's write(f)ln, should I use C's printf, or
something else ? What is the best way ? Because if I do
writefln("... %s", *pString);
it only displays the first character of the string, the value
that pString points to
Thanks
writefln et al sensibly does *not* assume that a pointer to char
is a C string, for memory safety purposes.
Print the result of std.string.fromStringz[1] instead:
writeln(fromStringz(pString));
writefln("%s", fromStringz(pString));
[1] http://dlang.org/phobos/std_string#fromStringz
