Re: Need help: Return reference slice

2014-10-30 Thread advibm via Digitalmars-d-learn
Thank you very much for your additions. I am still new to D so I am glad to see solutions from experienced D programmers.

Need help: Return reference slice

2014-10-29 Thread advibm via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hello, I would like to create a D function that returns a slice of a string. This slice shall be a reference to a part of the string argument. Is this generally possible in D? This is the function: auto ref betweenTwoStrings(T)(inout T src, string start, string end) { long a =

Re: Need help: Return reference slice

2014-10-29 Thread advibm via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 19:54:45 UTC, bearophile wrote: advibm: I would like to have something like that: char[] buf; // already filled array char[] partOfBuf = betweenTwoStrings(buf, START, END); partOfBuf[0] = 'a'; // THIS should also change the 'buf' variable assert(buf[0] ==