unknown wrote:
> Is there a built-in String class in D today ?
> 

Class... no. Furthermore there is no de facto standart external class like std::string in C++.

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unknown wrote:

> Is there a built-in String class in D today ?

No, for some of the reasons outlined in here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/cppstrings.html

In fact, there are even three string _types_...
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?CharsAndStrs


There are several third-party String variants,
like http://mango.dsource.org/classUString.html

But it doesn't look like Phobos will ever have one
(partly because it's not an object-oriented lib ?)

--anders