• Matt (10/10) Oct 27 2012 I'm having real trouble reading binary data from a file. I've
• Matt (3/13) Oct 27 2012 And I've just managed to find the previous post on this topic.

"Matt" <webwraith fastmail.fm> writes:

I'm having real trouble reading binary data from a file. I've 
been trying to use the functions from std.stdio, but keep running 
into problems. When I try;

byte b;
auto file = new File( "some binary file" );
file.readf( "%d", &b );

I get "Unexpected '€' when converting from type 
LockingTextReader to type int"
What functions do I use to read individual bytes, shorts, ints, 
longs and the like?

"Matt" <webwraith fastmail.fm> writes:

On Saturday, 27 October 2012 at 11:06:09 UTC, Matt wrote:
 I'm having real trouble reading binary data from a file. I've 
 been trying to use the functions from std.stdio, but keep 
 running into problems. When I try;

 byte b;
 auto file = new File( "some binary file" );
 file.readf( "%d", &b );

 I get "Unexpected '€' when converting from type 
 LockingTextReader to type int"
 What functions do I use to read individual bytes, shorts, ints, 
 longs and the like?

And I've just managed to find the previous post on this topic. 
Sorry for wasting peoples time