Files and Buffers

[Seb]

On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 21:42:33 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 2/1/18 4:36 PM, Jerry Ferris wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm developing a program that will either receive data from 
>> stdin or a file, and pass it along to a function for 
>> processing. I want to place this data into a buffer so there 
>> only has to be one version of the function. However, since I'm 
>> new to D, I'm unsure how to go about this in the most 
>> idiomatic way.
>
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#read
>
> Then cast to ubyte[].


There's also always std.string.representation which imho looks 
nicer then the cast:

https://dlang.org/library/std/string/representation.html