const unsigned char ptr (UnsafePointer<CUnsignedChar>) to String

Question

I'm trying to work with libxml directly in Swift. Now I want to get a const unsigned char * to a String, but I don't know how. Any ideas?

In Objective-C it works with

[NSString stringWithUTF8String:(const char*)nodePointer->name];

Answer 1

Have you tried:

let cString = CString(nodePointer.name)
let string = String.fromCString(cString)

That worked for me when dealing with a string value which was returned as an UnsafePointer<CUnsignedChar> when nothing else would work.