Reading and writing Unicode files

[Daniel Keep]

jicman wrote:
> downs Wrote:
> 
>> downs wrote:
>>> 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,
>>>>
>>>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/TextInD
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciate.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> jos�
>>> 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.
>> PS: You may need to do detection for UTF-16. In that case, just cast to a wstring instead, then (optionally) use std.utf.toUTF8.
> 
> shouldn't auto take care of that?

The compiler doesn't know what format your text files are in.  auto does
type inference.

  -- Daniel