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Andy Valencia 
Posted in reply to Mike Parker
| On Thursday, 8 May 2025 at 00:53:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> > tst44.d(6): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression fromStringz(ctime(null)) of type char[] to string
fromStringz is giving you a slice of a char* , typed char[] .
string is immutable(char)[] , so you can't assign char[] to it.
You could:
- change the type of
s to char[]
- call
.idup on the array returned from fromStringz to allocate a string
- use
std.conv.to
Thank you. I want to work in strings, so the first one's not an option. But both the second and third do the trick. Would you say the to!string would be the most idiomatic? It worked as "to!string(ctime(&t))", but is it safe to assume it's reliably dealing with null-terminated strings? It's the pithiest if so.
Andy
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