CSV Data to Binary File

[TJB via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 15:11:48 UTC, TJB wrote:
> I am trying to read data in from a csv file into a struct, and 
> then turn around and write that data to binary format.
>
> Here is my code:
>
> import std.algorithm;
> import std.csv;
> import stdio = std.stdio;
> import std.stream;
>
> align(1) struct QuotesBin
> {
>   int qtim;9   int bid;
>   int ofr;
>   int bidsiz;
>   int ofrsiz;
>   short mode;
>   char[1] ex;
>   char[4] mmid;
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>   string infile = "temp.csv";
>   string outfile = "temp.bin";
>   Stream fin = new BufferedFile(infile);
>   Stream fout = new BufferedFile(outfile, FileMode.Out);
>
>   foreach(ulong n, char[] line; fin)
>   {
>     auto record = csvReader!QuotesBin(line).front;
>     fout.writeExact(&record, QuotesBin.sizeof);
>   }
>
>   fin.close();
>   fout.close();
> }
>
> Here is a snippet of my csv data:
>
> 34220, 370000, 371200, 1, 1, 12, N,
> 34220, 369000, 372500, 1, 11, 12, P,
> 34220, 370000, 371200, 1, 2, 12, N,
> 34220, 370000, 371100, 1, 33, 12, N,
> 34220, 369400, 371100, 6, 3, 12, P,
> 34220, 370000, 371200, 1, 2, 12, N,
> 34220, 369300, 371200, 9, 2, 12, N,
> 34220, 369300, 371200, 5, 2, 12, N,
> 34220, 368900, 371200, 13, 2, 12, N,
> 34220, 368900, 371100, 13, 1, 12, N,
>
> For some reason this fails miserably. Can anyone help me out as 
> to why? What do I need to do differently?
>
> Thanks,
> TJB

Some of the code got messed up when I pasted.  Should be:

align(1) struct QuotesBin
{
   int qtim;
   int bid;
   int ofr;
   int bidsiz;
   int ofrsiz;
   short mode;
   char[1] ex;
   char[4] mmid;
}

Thanks!