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Function `dmd.root.string.fTuple`


						
				dmd.root.string.FTuple!(int,const(char)*) fTuple(
				
  scope return const(char)[] str
				

				) pure nothrow @nogc;

Returns

a (length, ptr) tuple for passing a D string to printf-style functions with the format string %.*s

Example

import core.stdc.stdio: snprintf;
char[6] buf = '.';
const(char)[] str = "cutoff"[0..4];
snprintf(buf.ptr, buf.length, "%.*s", str.fTuple.expand);
writeln(buf[]); // "cuto\0."

Authors

Walter Bright, https://www.digitalmars.com

License

Boost License 1.0