On 2013-12-06 08:53:04 +0000, maxpat78 said:
While porting a simple Python script to D, I found the following problem.
I need to read in some thousand of little text files and search every
one for a match with a given regular expression.
Obviously, the program can't (and it should not) be certain about the
encoding of each input file.
I initially used read() casting it with a cast(char[]), but, at some
point, the regex engine crashed with an exception: it encountered an
UTF-8 character it couldn't automatically decode. This is right, since
char[] is not byte[].
Now I'm casting with a Latin1String, since I know this is the right
encoding for the input buffers: and it works fine, at last... but what
about if I'd need to treat a RAW (binary? unknown encoding?) buffer?
Is there a simple and elegant solution in D for such case?
Python didn't gave such problems!
Why don't you follow one of the file reading examples?
readText is what you're looking for.
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#.readText
