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Function std.string.representation
Returns the representation of a string, which has the same type
as the string except the character type is replaced by ubyte,
ushort, or uint depending on the character width.
Prototype
auto representation(Char)( Char[] s ) pure nothrow @nogc @safe if (isSomeChar!Char);
Parameters
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| s | The string to return the representation of. |
Returns
The representation of the passed string.
Example
string s = "hello"; static assert(is(typeof(representation(s)) == immutable(ubyte)[])); assert(representation(s) is cast(immutable(ubyte)[]) s); assert(representation(s) == [0x68, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f]);
Authors
Walter Bright, Andrei Alexandrescu, and Jonathan M Davis