Reading a structured binary file?

[Gary Willoughby]

On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 18:14:47 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> This sounds a great idea but once the file has been opened as a 
> MmFile how to i convert this to a ubyte[] so the std.bitmanip 
> functions work with it?

I'm currently doing this:

	auto file = new MmFile("file.dat");
	ubyte[] buffer = cast(ubyte[])file[];
	buffer.read!uint(); //etc.

Is this how you would recommend?