• Dr.No (6/6) May 26 2018 What's D's way to do that? I need it to be mutable array of wchar
• Neia Neutuladh (12/18) May 26 2018 std.conv.to has you covered for quite a lot of conversions:

Dr.No <jckj33 gmail.com> writes:

What's D's way to do that? I need it to be mutable array of wchar 
because a Windows function requires that.

Alternative to go down to using pointers, which would be 
something like:

wchar[] w = new wchar[s.length];
memcpy(w.ptr, s.ptr, s.length);

Neia Neutuladh <neia ikeran.org> writes:

On Saturday, 26 May 2018 at 17:12:38 UTC, Dr.No wrote:
 What's D's way to do that? I need it to be mutable array of 
 wchar because a Windows function requires that.

 Alternative to go down to using pointers, which would be 
 something like:

 wchar[] w = new wchar[s.length];
 memcpy(w.ptr, s.ptr, s.length);

std.conv.to has you covered for quite a lot of conversions:

import std.conv;
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
     string s = "hello world";
     wchar[] mutableUtf16 = s.to!(wchar[]);
     mutableUtf16[0] = '☃';
     // prints ☃ello world
     writeln(mutableUtf16);
}