Hi, it's a kind of silly question: How can i use a string as a type? for example i want to pass a parameter as a string but the compiler says string is not defined, which module dhould i import to work with strings?

thx.

In D there is no "string". Instead there is char[] (, dchar[] or wchar[]).

There are some utility functions in std.string, but for making use of char[] you need nothing to be imported.

Heinz napsal(a):
> Hi, it's a kind of silly question: How can i use a string as a type? for example
> i want to pass a parameter as a string but the compiler says string is not
> defined, which module dhould i import to work with strings?
> 
> thx.
> 
> 
try to write somewhere in declaration part:
alias char[] string;
or use char[] as string:)

Yossarian wrote:

> Heinz napsal(a):
> 
>> Hi, it's a kind of silly question: How can i use a string as a type? for example
>> i want to pass a parameter as a string but the compiler says string is not
>> defined, which module dhould i import to work with strings?
>>
>> thx.
>>
>>
> try to write somewhere in declaration part:
> alias char[] string;
or get Walter to put this in phobos!

:D

-DavidM

In article <e7imaq$2jql$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Heinz says...
>
>Hi, it's a kind of silly question: How can i use a string as a type? for example i want to pass a parameter as a string but the compiler says string is not defined, which module dhould i import to work with strings?
>
>thx.
>
>

Thanks guys for your answers. I know it is a basic stuff, i used to work with char[] in lower level languages but now i was used to the string type in managed languages.

I'll use an alias for now but hope Walter to add a string type in phobos.

"Heinz" <Heinz_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:e7jj7v$sdo$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> Thanks guys for your answers. I know it is a basic stuff, i used to work
> with
> char[] in lower level languages but now i was used to the string type in
> managed
> languages.

D is "managed" ;)  That's just MS's fancy term for "Garbage Collected."

> I'll use an alias for now but hope Walter to add a string type in phobos.

You'd be surprised, but char[] handles just about any kind of string handling.  I've never felt like I was lacking an explicit string type in D.

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:e7kplh$2h7u$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> That's just MS's fancy term for "Garbage Collected."

Though it might mean more.  I've only ever heard it in the context of being "garbage collected."

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

> D is "managed" ;)  That's just MS's fancy term for "Garbage Collected."

Managed means virtual machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_code
The usual / native code is now (belittlingly) known as Unmanaged code...

So, D is "unmanaged". At least until D# :-)

--anders

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> So, D is "unmanaged". At least until D# :-)

Well, what about D++ then? <g>

Andrei Khropov wrote:
> Anders F Björklund wrote:
> 
>> So, D is "unmanaged". At least until D# :-)
> 
> Well, what about D++ then? <g> 

That's already taken.

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