Pointers and offsets

[Bauss via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 01:16:54 UTC, Bauss wrote:
> Is it possible to access a pointer by its offsets.
> Ex. write a 32bit integer to a byte pointer at ex. offset 4.
>
> To give an example in C# you can do this:
> fixed (byte* Packet = Buffer) // Buffer would be a byte array
>
> And then to set the value of a specific offset
> *((TYPE*)(Packet + OFFSET))
>
> Where TYPE could be replaced by ex. uint and OFFSET by 4
>
> I tried to look here:
> http://dlang.org/arrays.html
>
> But couldn't seem to find anything like it.

Can't seem to edit OP so at:
*((TYPE*)(Packet + OFFSET))

It should be:
*((TYPE*)(Packet + OFFSET)) = VALUE;

VALUE has to be of the same type as TYPE of course.