Cast *[]const u8 to anyopaque pointer

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I’m new to Zig and I’m trying to make a test project to learn it. Is there a way to cast a *[ ]const u8 to *anyopaque? Because when I try to build and run this code:

var x: []const u8 = "hello world!";
const ptr_x: *[]const u8 = &x;
const any: Any = Any.init(ptr_x);

In Any.init():

pub fn init(p_val: anytype) @This() {

    return @This(){
        .val: *anyopaque = p_val,
        .type_info = //...
    };
}

It gives me a compile error:

src\any\any.zig:10:10: error: expected type '*anyopaque', found '*[]const u8'
        .val = p_val,
        ~^~~~~~~~~~~
src\any\any.zig:10:10: note: cannot implicitly cast double pointer '*[]const u8' to anyopaque pointer '*anyopaque'
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Zig is trying to protect you from mistakes here. To acknowledge that you do want this cast, you can always explicitly cast it:

.val = @ptrCast(p_val),
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