casting and arrays..

[Kirk McDonald]

Chris Warwick wrote:
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>> "Chris Warwick" <sp at m.me.not> wrote in message 
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>>> std.file.read(filename);
>>>
>>> returns type void[]
> 
> Ok say you have that void[] array returned from std.read.file(). Whats the 
> best way to copy a struct out from the void array? Only way i can think is 
> memcpy, or some heavy duty casting and pointers. Is there a cleaner - 
> pretier way with D?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> cw 
> 
> 

Assuming that array.length == YourStruct.sizeof, you can say
     cast(YourStruct*)array.ptr
to treat the array as the struct in-place.

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