Jonathan M Davis: > UTF-8 strings are easy because they're the same size as ubytes. > Casting to char[] for the portion of the data that you want as a string > seems to work just fine.
D2 string are immutable(char)[] and not char[]. Strings are UTF-8, while the raw bytes you read from a file may contain everything, so in some situations you need to use the validate function. > But what about other types? Is it the correct thing to > cast to T[] where T is whatever type the data represents and then index into > it > to get the values that you want of that type and then cast the next section > of > the data to U[] where U is the type for the next section of the data, etc.? > Or > is there a better way to handle this? It's better to avoid casts when possible, and SafeD may even be restrict their usage. Take a look at the rawWrite/rawRead methods of std.stdio.File. Bye, bearophile
