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The D Programming Language
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The D Programming Language

by Andrei Alexandrescu
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
456 pages
14h 48m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 4. Arrays, Associative Arrays, and Strings

The previous chapters indirectly acquainted us with arrays, associative arrays, and strings—an expression here, a literal there—so it’s time for a closer inspection. A lot of good code can be written using only these three types, so learning about them comes in handy now that we have expressions and statements under our belt.

4.1 Dynamic Arrays

D offers a simple but very versatile array abstraction. For a type T, T[] is the type of contiguous regions of memory containing elements of type T. D calls T[] “array of values of type T” or, colloquially, “array of Ts.”

To create a dynamic array, use a new expression (§ 2.3.6.1 on page 51) as follows:

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