Sorry if I havn't found this in the docs, but is there an equivalent to the java String complex type in D ?

I see mention of toString in the topics, but cannot see under Types in the documentation, a String class.

Don Stewart wrote:

> Sorry if I havn't found this in the docs, but is there an equivalent to the java String complex type in D ?
>
> I see mention of toString in the topics, but cannot see under Types in the documentation, a String class.

D uses arrays of chars.  Arrays in D may be const-sized or dynamic (most string applications would use dynamic arrays, of course).

Since the length is known by the length of the array, strings in D are not null-terminated.  (there's one caveat: string constants include an unneceesary null terminator-doesn't count towards the length of the array-so that you can pass string constants directly into C functions that expect null terminators.)

You can append an array to another with the concatenate operator.  Since there are no null terminator, this also works perfectly for strings:

char str[] = "asdf";
str ~= "jkl";        /* str now is "asdfjkl" */

http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html

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"Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org> wrote in message news:3CEAB7F7.D58FD38A@deming-os.org...
> Don Stewart wrote:
>
> > Sorry if I havn't found this in the docs, but is there an equivalent to
the
> > java String complex type in D ?
> >
> > I see mention of toString in the topics, but cannot see under Types in
the
> > documentation, a String class.
>
> D uses arrays of chars.  Arrays in D may be const-sized or dynamic (most
string
> applications would use dynamic arrays, of course).
>
> Since the length is known by the length of the array, strings in D are not null-terminated.  (there's one caveat: string constants include an
unneceesary
> null terminator-doesn't count towards the length of the array-so that you
can
> pass string constants directly into C functions that expect null
terminators.)
>
> You can append an array to another with the concatenate operator.  Since
there
> are no null terminator, this also works perfectly for strings:
>
> char str[] = "asdf";
> str ~= "jkl";        /* str now is "asdfjkl" */
>
> http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html
>
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Many Thanks Russ