var
            id: uint64
            inp = @["1", "user", "email"]

        #allocate memory for a cstring, the size of the string being copied
        var s1:cstring = cast[cstring] (alloc0((inp[1].len + 1) * sizeof(char)))


        s1 = inp[1]
        echo $s1
        #Works!
        var s2 = inp[1].cstring

        copyMem(addr s1, addr s2, s1.len * sizeof(char))
        echo $s1
        #Works!