String to binary conversion

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 9/3/2014 8:32 AM, clearion wrote:
> I would like to write binary data to a file for an ancillary hash table
> operation and then read it back using stream.rawRead(). How would I go
> about converting a string to binary in D. I would prefer not to use any
> third party libraries if I can. Thank You

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