Binary I/O for Newbie

[Robert Jacques]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:21:21 -0600, tjb <broughtj at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I am just starting to learn D.  I am an economist - not a programmer, so  
> I appreciate your patience with lack of knowledge.
>
> I have some financial data in a binary file that I would like to  
> process. In C++ I have the data in a structure like this:
>
> struct TaqIdx {
>    char symbol[10];
>    int tdate;
>    int begrec;
>    int endrec;
> }
>
> And I use an ifstream to cast the data to the structure in read.  I'm  
> struggling to get a handle on I/O in D.  Can you give some pointers?   
> Thanks so much!
>
> TJB

This is about the simplest way to read binary data in:

auto data = cast(TaqIdx[]) std.file.read(filename);