Load entire file, as a char array.

[bauss]

On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 06:25:23 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 03:19:39 UTC, Neia Neutuladh 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 03:04:57 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
>>> This should be simple? All I want to do is load an entire 
>>> file, and access individual bytes. The entire thing. I don't 
>>> want to have know the file size before hand, or "guess" and 
>>> have a "maximum size" buffer.
>>>
>>> So far, all google searches for "dlang binary file read" end 
>>> up not working for me.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>
>> http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/std.file.read.1.html
>>
>> import std.file : read;
>> auto bytes = read("filename");
>>
>> This gives you a void[], which you can cast to ubyte[] or 
>> char[] or whatever you need.
>
> Or he could do readText() which returns a string, which in turn 
> will give a proper char array when casted.

Actually ignore the casting thing, looking at readText it takes a 
template parameter.

So:

char[] a = readText!(char[])("filename");