Reading and writing Unicode files

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jicman wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> Sorry guys, please be patient with me.  I am having a hard time understanding this Unicode, ANSI, UTF* ideas.  I know how to get an UTF8 File and turn it into ANSI. and I know how to take a ANSI file and turn it into an UTF file.  But, now I have a Unicode file and I need to change the content and create a new Unicode file with the changes in the content.  I have read all kind of places, and I found mtext, from Chris Miller's site, by reading,
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> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/TextInD
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> Anyway, what I need is to read an Unicode file, search the strings inside, make changes to the file and write the changes back to an Unicode file.
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> Any help would be greatly appreciate.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> josé

Wow, you're in luck!

D is all unicode.

Just do import std.file; auto text = cast(string) filename.read(); do your changes; filename.write(cast(void[]) text);

and you're done.