On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:16:54 -0400, mimocrocodil <[email protected]>
wrote:
I obtain immutable(byte)* and int where contained length of bytes block
from C library.
Can I convert this into byte[] without explict copying etc.
Something like:
byte* p; // bytes
int size; // size of bytes block
byte[] b;
b.length = size;
b.ptr = p;
// now b contains bytes from library
It's even easier:
auto b = p[0..size]; // b is of type byte[]
I.e. you can use a slice operation on a pointer to create a
correctly-typed slice.
Keep in mind, the size is the number of *elements* for the slice, not the
number of *bytes*. In your case it happens to be identical, but for
larger element types it would be different.
-Steve
