On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 16:08:01 UTC, TJB wrote:
Thanks Marc. Not sure what to do here. I need to the binary
data to be exactly the number of bytes as specified by the
struct.
How to handle the conversion from string to char[]?
Well, in your CSV data, they don't have the right length, so you
have to decide how to handle that. The easiest way would be to
set the length. This will fill up the string with "\0" bytes if
it is to short:
align(1) struct QuotesBin
{
int qtim;
int bid;
int ofr;
int bidsiz;
int ofrsiz;
short mode;
char[1] ex;
char[4] mmid;
this(const QuotesBinDummy rhs) {
this.qtim = rhs.qtim;
this.bid = rhs.bid;
this.ofr = rhs.ofr;
this.bidsiz = rhs.bidsiz;
this.ofrsiz = rhs.ofrsiz;
this.mode = rhs.mode;
string tmp;
tmp = rhs.ex;
tmp.length = this.ex.length;
this.ex = tmp;
tmp = rhs.mmid;
tmp.length = this.mmid.length;
this.mmid = tmp;
}
}
...
auto temp = csvReader!QuotesBinDummy(line).front;
QuotesBin record = temp;
fout.writeExact(&record, QuotesBin.sizeof);
...
But of course, whether this is correct depends on whether your
binary format allows it, or requires all chars to be non-zero
ASCII values.
