Re: Reading ASCII file with some codes above 127 (exten ascii)

[Paul]

This works, though it's ugly:

    foreach(line; uniS.splitLines()) {
       transcode(line, latinS);
       fout.writeln((cast(char[]) latinS));
    }

The Latin1String type, at the storage level, is a ubyte[]. By 
casting to char[], you can get a similar-to-string thing that 
writeln() can handle.

Graham

Awesome!  What a lesson! Thannk you!

So if anyone is following this thread heres my code now.  This 
reads a text file(encoded in Latin1 which is basic ascii with 
extended ascii codes), allows D to work with it in unicode, and 
then spits it back out as Latin1.

I wonder about the speed between this method and Era's home-spun 
solution?

import std.stdio;
import std.string;
import std.file;
import std.encoding;

// Main function
void main(){
    auto fout = File("out.txt","w");
    auto latinS = cast(Latin1String) read("in.txt");
    string uniS;
    transcode(latinS, uniS);
    foreach(line; uniS.splitLines()){
       transcode(line, latinS);
       fout.writeln((cast(char[]) latinS));
    }
}