Binary I/O for Newbie

[tjb]

On Monday, 27 February 2012 at 18:56:15 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:42:36 +0100, Tobias Brandt wrote:
>
>> Doesn't the struct alignment play a role here?
>
> Good point. If the data is packed, you can toss an align(1) on 
> the front
> of the struct declaration.

So, something like this should work:

import std.stdio : writeln, writefln;
import std.stream;

align(1) struct TaqIdx {
   char[10] symbol;
   int tdate;
   int begrec;
   int endrec;
}

void main() {
   auto input = new File("T200808A.IDX");
   TaqIdx taq;

   input.readExact(&taq, TaqIdx.sizeof);
   writefln("%s %s %s %s", taq.symbol, taq.tdate, taq.begrec, 
taq.endrec);
}

Thanks so much!

TJB