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digitalmars.D.learn - please correct my char count program...

reply pieter Valdano pattiruhu <pieter_ambonese yahoo.co.id> writes:
here is my count char program:

import std.stdio;
import std.string;

void main()
{
     char* s;
     char string[100];

writef("please input your text=");
scanf("%s",&string);
writef("your text length is=",string.length);
}

does my program work properly?. when i try to run it, d compiler tell that
can't convert string to int. please show me the way to convert string into
integer. (if you don't mind i need your correction in my simple char program).
thank you very much...GBU
Jun 19 2007
next sibling parent reply Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
import std.stdio : readln, writef, writefln;

void main()
{
    writef("Please input your text: ");
    auto s = readln();
    writefln("Your text length is: %s", s.length);
}

Note that strings in D are *not* NUL-terminated like they are in C.
Your code wouldn't work since the .length of a char[100] is *always*
100.  The following is untested, but should work:

import std.string : toString;

void main()
{
    char[100] c_string_buffer;
    scanf("%s", c_string_buffer.ptr);
    auto d_string = toString(c_string_buffer.ptr);
}

.ptr gives you a pointer to an array's first element, so (char[100]).ptr
is a char*.

In this case, toString(char*) assumes its argument is a C-style
NUL-terminated string, and converts it to a D string.  Note that it will
return a slice of the input data, so that in this particular case,
d_string must not outlive c_string_buffer.

	-- Daniel
Jun 19 2007
next sibling parent pieter Valdano pattiruhu <pieter_ambonese yahoo.co.id> writes:
Daniel Keep Wrote:

 
 import std.stdio : readln, writef, writefln;
 
 void main()
 {
     writef("Please input your text: ");
     auto s = readln();
     writefln("Your text length is: %s", s.length);
 }
 
 Note that strings in D are *not* NUL-terminated like they are in C.
 Your code wouldn't work since the .length of a char[100] is *always*
 100.  The following is untested, but should work:
 
 import std.string : toString;
 
 void main()
 {
     char[100] c_string_buffer;
     scanf("%s", c_string_buffer.ptr);
     auto d_string = toString(c_string_buffer.ptr);
 }
 
 .ptr gives you a pointer to an array's first element, so (char[100]).ptr
 is a char*.
 
 In this case, toString(char*) assumes its argument is a C-style
 NUL-terminated string, and converts it to a D string.  Note that it will
 return a slice of the input data, so that in this particular case,
 d_string must not outlive c_string_buffer.
 
 	-- Daniel
thank you very much mr.daniel...God Bless U
Jun 20 2007
prev sibling parent davidl <davidl 126.com> writes:
It's really bad to teach someone write buffer overflow vulnerable code

 import std.stdio : readln, writef, writefln;

 void main()
 {
     writef("Please input your text: ");
     auto s = readln();
     writefln("Your text length is: %s", s.length);
 }

 Note that strings in D are *not* NUL-terminated like they are in C.
 Your code wouldn't work since the .length of a char[100] is *always*
 100.  The following is untested, but should work:

 import std.string : toString;

 void main()
 {
     char[100] c_string_buffer;
     scanf("%s", c_string_buffer.ptr);
     auto d_string = toString(c_string_buffer.ptr);
 }

 .ptr gives you a pointer to an array's first element, so (char[100]).ptr
 is a char*.

 In this case, toString(char*) assumes its argument is a C-style
 NUL-terminated string, and converts it to a D string.  Note that it will
 return a slice of the input data, so that in this particular case,
 d_string must not outlive c_string_buffer.

 	-- Daniel
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Jul 02 2007
prev sibling parent Derek Parnell <derek nomail.afraid.org> writes:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:48:06 -0400, pieter Valdano pattiruhu wrote:

 here is my count char program:
 
 import std.stdio;
 import std.string;
 
 void main()
 {
      char* s;
      char string[100];
 
 writef("please input your text=");
 scanf("%s",&string);
 writef("your text length is=",string.length);
 }
The main problem is that you are trying to write D as if it was C. There are large differences that make D coding a whole lot easier. For example, here is a way of doing it : import std.stdio; void main() { char[] s; writef("please input your text="); s = readln(); writef("your text length is=",s.length); } The differences are that D can use a variable-length array rather than a fixed-length one that one typically uses in C. Also in D, it is rare to use pointers such as 'char *p' because it knows a lot more about arrays and pointer usage than C does, which means you don't have to code as much. Note that when readln() runs, it collects all the characters typed including the Return/Enter key so that the last character in the buffer is always '\n'. -- Derek (skype: derek.j.parnell) Melbourne, Australia 20/06/2007 12:13:29 PM
Jun 19 2007