Hi! Could anyone tell me how I can use an object t...

# kotlin-native

[Daniel Baird]

Hi! Could anyone tell me how I can use an object that I have a CPointer to?
I'm trying to use the posix readdir method like so: var entry = readdir(dp). The entry that is returned is a CPointer<dirent>. I want to use the dirent directly to get the name. One Attempt was to do this val name = entry[0].d_name.toString(), but that is giving me a useless string that looks like this "CPointer(raw=0x2904670)"

[Daniel Baird]

the ide seems to think that entry[0] is correct. So maybe it's just that I need a different method to convert d_name (CArrayPointer<ByteVar>) to a string.

[Dominaezzz]

Try .toKString() instead.

[Daniel Baird]

Thanks! That works. For some reason intellij doesn't recognize that it is valid.