how to raw read a struct or value?

[Graham Fawcett]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:05:33 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:36:47 -0400, Graham Fawcett <fawcett at uwindsor.ca>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:01:29 +0000, hasnoth wrote:
>>
>>> auto file = io.File("test.txt", "rb");
>>>   auto fp = file.getFP();
>>>   int x;
>>>   io.fread(&x, x.sizeof, 1, fp);
>>>
>>>   what's the “d method” to do that?
>>
>> The same method:
>>
>> import core.stdc.stdio : fread;
>> fread(&x, x.sizeof, 1, fp);
>>
>> or, if you are using an array, you can use File.rawRead:
>>
>> int[10] xx;
>> f.rawRead(xx);
> 
> In fact, you can read a struct/int this way too:
> 
> f.rawRead((&x)[0..1]);
> 
> -Steve

Aha! that makes sense. Thanks, Steve.

Graham