casting and arrays..

[Chris Warwick]

"Kirk McDonald" <kirklin.mcdonald at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:esvk4l$28mi$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Chris Warwick wrote:
>> "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
>> news:esvhdv$261a$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> "Chris Warwick" <sp at m.me.not> wrote in message 
>>> news:esvf5h$2317$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> 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.

Well i cant realy do that cause im reading a binary file in, and then i want 
to parse it, extract structs and various types here and there.

cheers,

cw