Hello.

Is there a proper way to convert a string with multibyte characters into a dstring?

Case scenario:

    string a = "abc😃123"; // a.length == 10 ("abc"==3 + "😃"==4 + "123"==3)
    dstring b = foo(a); // b.length = 7 ("abc"==3 + "😃"==1 + "123"==3)

    dstring foo(string str) {
        // code...
    }

On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 21:23:31 UTC, Vladimirs Nordholm wrote:

> Is there a proper way to convert a string with multibyte characters into a dstring?

void main() {
    import std.conv : to;
    import std.stdio : writeln;
	string a = "abc😃123";
    auto b = to!dstring(a);
    assert(b.length == 7);
    writeln(b);
}

On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 21:33:15 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 21:23:31 UTC, Vladimirs Nordholm wrote:
>
>> Is there a proper way to convert a string with multibyte characters into a dstring?
>
> void main() {
>     import std.conv : to;
>     import std.stdio : writeln;
> 	string a = "abc😃123";
>     auto b = to!dstring(a);
>     assert(b.length == 7);
>     writeln(b);
> }

Oh! It was so simple.

Thank you so much Stanislav 👍