reading UTF-8 formated file into dynamic array

[Carlos Santander]

thofis escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to read a text file into a dynamic array but got stucked with non
> ASCII characters. While trying I looked at the word count example.
> (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/wc.html)
> 
> Basicly there's used:
> char[] input;
> // read file into input[]
> input = cast(char[])std.file.read(args[i]);
> 
> But it seems that this casting does not result in proper filling of
> _input_. Any non ACSII character is splited into multiple characters.

That's just the nature of UTF-8 and how it's handled in D.

> (BOM is also contained in _input_.)
> 
> So..., how I get a UTF-8 file properly mapped into an dynamic array?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Bye

std.stream contains a BOM Stream class or some such. Try that instead of 
std.file.read.

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Carlos Santander Bernal