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May 21, 2020 redirect std out to a string? | ||||
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is there a way to redirect std out to a string or a buffer without using a temp file? |
May 21, 2020 Re: redirect std out to a string? | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kaitlyn Emmons | On 5/21/20 12:29 AM, Kaitlyn Emmons wrote:
> is there a way to redirect std out to a string or a buffer without using a temp file?
D's I/O is dependent on C's FILE * API, so if you can make that write to a string, then you could do it in D.
I don't think there's a way to do it in C. So likely the answer is no.
-Steve
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May 21, 2020 Re: redirect std out to a string? | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kaitlyn Emmons | On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 04:29:30 UTC, Kaitlyn Emmons wrote:
> is there a way to redirect std out to a string or a buffer without using a temp file?
If you want to do the redirection at startup, it's possible. Have an another program to start your program by std.process functions and redirect stdout to a pipe. The outer program can then handle the output of the inner program however it wishes. Clumsy but possible.
But I don't know whether a process can redirect it's own standard input or output.
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May 21, 2020 Re: redirect std out to a string? | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kaitlyn Emmons | On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 04:29:30 UTC, Kaitlyn Emmons wrote:
> is there a way to redirect std out to a string or a buffer without using a temp file?
yes:
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#!dmd -betterC
module runnable;
extern(C) int main()
{
import core.sys.posix.stdio : fclose, stdout, fmemopen, printf, fflush;
import core.stdc.stdlib : malloc;
char* buff;
enum s = "this will use a buffer from the heap that has, " ~
"just like a file, a FD thanks to fmemopen()";
fclose(stdout);
buff = cast(char*) malloc(4096);
buff[0..4096] = '\0';
stdout = fmemopen(buff, 4096, "wr+");
printf(s);
fflush(stdout);
assert(buff[0..s.length] == s);
return 0;
}
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something similar should be possible using mmap().
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May 21, 2020 Re: redirect std out to a string? | ||||
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Posted in reply to Basile B. | On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 15:42:50 UTC, Basile B. wrote: > On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 04:29:30 UTC, Kaitlyn Emmons wrote: >> is there a way to redirect std out to a string or a buffer without using a temp file? > > yes: > > [snip] Alternatively, setvbuf can be used: void[1024] buf; // buffer must be valid as long as the program is running [1] // (buffer could also be heap-allocated; see Basile's post) void main() { import std.stdio; import std.string : fromStringz; stdout.reopen("/dev/null", "a"); // on Windows, "NUL" should do the trick stdout.setvbuf(buf); writeln("Hello world", 12345); stdout.writeln("Hello again"); // Lastly, fromStringz is used to get a correctly sized char[] from the buffer char[] mystr = fromStringz(cast(char *) buf.ptr); stderr.writeln("Buffer contents:\n", mystr); } [1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/io/setvbuf#Notes |
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