cannot cast char to char[]
cannot cast char to char[1]

this is what DMD says, but I don't see what's the big deal. It is obvious that char is char[1]. Maybe there is technical reason...

bobef wrote:

> cannot cast char to char[]
> cannot cast char to char[1]
> 
> this is what DMD says, but I don't see what's the big deal. It is obvious that char is char[1]. Maybe there is technical reason...

Your char may only live in a register in the cpu. In order to cast it to a single element array, you need to allocate a memory location to store it.

bobef wrote:
> cannot cast char to char[]
> cannot cast char to char[1]
> 
> this is what DMD says, but I don't see what's the big deal. It is obvious that char is char[1]. Maybe there is technical reason...

I think it can be done with
#    "" ~ yourChar
assuming yourChar is a variable of type char

bobef wrote:
> cannot cast char to char[]
> cannot cast char to char[1]
> 
> this is what DMD says, but I don't see what's the big deal. It is obvious that char is char[1]. Maybe there is technical reason...

Not quite. While a char is an utf8 code point. char[1] its actually a structure like this:

char c = 'a';

struct CharArr1
{
	char* ptr = &c;
	size_t length = 1;
}

You can convert a char to a char[] with this code:

char[] charArr1 = (&c)[0..1];


Julio César Carrascal Urquijo