On Friday, March 09, 2012 16:48:33 Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: > On 2012-03-09 15:08:42 +0000, bearophile said: > > Magnus Lie Hetland: > >> It seems that File has no method for reading the entire file contents > >> into a string, so I'd have to read and concatenate lines or chunks or > >> something? > > > > There are std.file.read() and std.file.readText(). > > Yeah, I found those. I guess my post was a bit verbose, but the main > point was that I have a File object, but no file name (because I'm > using std.stdio.tmpfile() in a unit test), so std.file.read() and > std.file.readText() are useless to me... :)
File has a name property. You can do something like auto file = File.tmpfile(); auto filename = file.name; auto str = readText(filename); I do grant you though that it's a bit odd to need to get the file name and operate on that rather than operating on the File object. It works though, and is a lot cleaner than reading in the file line-by-line, if you don't actually need to do that. - Jonathan M Davis
