digitalmars.D.learn - Base64 of String without casting
- tcak (8/8) Jun 01 2016 I understand that Base64 uses Ranges, and since String is seen
- Rene Zwanenburg (3/12) Jun 01 2016 This should do the trick:
I understand that Base64 uses Ranges, and since String is seen and used as unicode by Ranges (please tell me if I am wrong). I am guessing, for this reason, auto btoa = std.base64.Base64.encode("Blah"); doesn't work. You need to be casting the string to ubyte[] to make it work which doesn't look and feel nice at all. Can/shall we add another alias into the module for encode method, so it accepts a string, and casts it to ubyte[] by itself?
Jun 01 2016
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 09:31:51 UTC, tcak wrote:I understand that Base64 uses Ranges, and since String is seen and used as unicode by Ranges (please tell me if I am wrong). I am guessing, for this reason, auto btoa = std.base64.Base64.encode("Blah"); doesn't work. You need to be casting the string to ubyte[] to make it work which doesn't look and feel nice at all. Can/shall we add another alias into the module for encode method, so it accepts a string, and casts it to ubyte[] by itself?This should do the trick: https://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html#.representation
Jun 01 2016