Read file/stream

[Stewart Gordon]

On 11/03/2011 18:46, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
<snip>
> I am not sure what facilities Phobos provides for reading/writing integers in network
> order (i.e. Big Endian), but I'm sure there's something.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/phobos/std_stream.html
EndianStream

I haven't experimented with it.  And I don't expect it to handle structs well. 
Alternatively, you could use some simple code like

--------
version (BigEndian) {
     uint bigEndian(uint value) {
         return value;
     }
}

version (LittleEndian) {
     uint bigEndian(uint value) {
         return value << 24
           | (value & 0x0000FF00) << 8
           | (value & 0x00FF0000) >> 8
           | value >> 24;
     }
}
--------

though you would have to remember to call it for each file I/O operation that relies on 
it.  If you use a struct, you could put a method in it to call bigEndian on the members of 
relevance.

Stewart.