What it the preferred method to write a class to a file?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Charles D Hixson" <charleshixsn at earthlink.net> wrote in message 
news:ea0rll$5h9$1 at digitaldaemon.com...

> P.S.:  Is there a standard library routine for converting
> between strings of length 4 and uint-s?  If so I wasn't able
> to find it.  If not, I wasn't able to determine that it
> didn't exist.  (That would have made writing the sig more
> efficient.)

You don't even need a routine to do it.

char[] sig = "help";
uint s = *cast(uint*)sig.ptr;

And the other way..

uint s = 0xAABBCCDD;
char[] sig = new char[4];
*cast(uint*)sig.ptr = s;