• Don Stewart (4/4) May 20 2002 Sorry if I havn't found this in the docs, but is there an equivalent to ...
• Russ Lewis (17/21) May 21 2002 D uses arrays of chars. Arrays in D may be const-sized or dynamic (most...
• Don Stewart (10/32) May 21 2002 the

"Don Stewart" <donald.m.stewart btinternet.com> writes:

Sorry if I havn't found this in the docs, but is there an equivalent to the
java String complex type in D ?

I see mention of toString in the topics, but cannot see under Types in the
documentation, a String class.

Russ Lewis <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> writes:

Don Stewart wrote:

 Sorry if I havn't found this in the docs, but is there an equivalent to the
 java String complex type in D ?

 I see mention of toString in the topics, but cannot see under Types in the
 documentation, a String class.

D uses arrays of chars.  Arrays in D may be const-sized or dynamic (most string
applications would use dynamic arrays, of course).

Since the length is known by the length of the array, strings in D are not
null-terminated.  (there's one caveat: string constants include an unneceesary
null terminator-doesn't count towards the length of the array-so that you can
pass string constants directly into C functions that expect null terminators.)

You can append an array to another with the concatenate operator.  Since there
are no null terminator, this also works perfectly for strings:

char str[] = "asdf";
str ~= "jkl";        /* str now is "asdfjkl" */

http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html

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"Don Stewart" <donald.m.stewart btinternet.com> writes:

"Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> wrote in message
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 Don Stewart wrote:

 Sorry if I havn't found this in the docs, but is there an equivalent to


the
 java String complex type in D ?

 I see mention of toString in the topics, but cannot see under Types in


the
 documentation, a String class.

 D uses arrays of chars.  Arrays in D may be const-sized or dynamic (most

string
 applications would use dynamic arrays, of course).

 Since the length is known by the length of the array, strings in D are not
 null-terminated.  (there's one caveat: string constants include an

unneceesary
 null terminator-doesn't count towards the length of the array-so that you

can
 pass string constants directly into C functions that expect null

terminators.)
 You can append an array to another with the concatenate operator.  Since

there
 are no null terminator, this also works perfectly for strings:

 char str[] = "asdf";
 str ~= "jkl";        /* str now is "asdfjkl" */

 http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html

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Many Thanks Russ