Working with C strings in Swift, or: How to convert UnsafePointer to CString

Question

While playing with Standard C Library functions in Swift, I came across problems when passing C strings around. As a simple example (just to demonstrate the problem), the St

Answer 1

The String struct in Swift has an init routine you can use like:

let myString = String(cString: myUnsafePointer)

see also init(cString: UnsafePointer)

Answer 2

Swift 1.1 (or perhaps earlier) has even better C string bridging:

let haystack = "This is a simple string"
let needle = "simple"
let result = String.fromCString(strstr(haystack, needle))

The CString type is gone completely.