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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.


						
				auto 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);
writeln(representation(s)); // [0x68, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f]

Authors

Walter Bright, Andrei Alexandrescu, Jonathan M Davis, and David L. 'SpottedTiger' Davis

License

Boost License 1.0.