I've been trying to write some small Unix-style utilities that read data from either a file or stdin, process it and write the results to stdout.  Is there a way to create an object of the Stream class from Phobos or one of its subclasses that treats stdin as an input stream?  I'd like to avoid using the C standard file/stream I/O if possible, since it doesn't handle exceptions automatically and is just in general butt ugly compared to Phobos's implementation.

"dsimcha" <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:g57v7m$ss1$1@digitalmars.com...
> I've been trying to write some small Unix-style utilities that read data
> from
> either a file or stdin, process it and write the results to stdout.  Is
> there
> a way to create an object of the Stream class from Phobos or one of its
> subclasses that treats stdin as an input stream?  I'd like to avoid using
> the
> C standard file/stream I/O if possible, since it doesn't handle exceptions
> automatically and is just in general butt ugly compared to Phobos's
> implementation.

import std.cstream, and use the din object :)

How is this class supposed to be used?  I wrote a simple test program, and it appears not to work the way other subclasses of Stream work.  Here's the test program, which should just copy stdin to stdout, but seems to do absolutely nothing.

void main () {
   foreach(char[] line; din) {
       writefln(line);
   }
}

Similar results occur when I use the readLine method.

"dsimch" <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:g58520$188d$1@digitalmars.com...
> How is this class supposed to be used?  I wrote a simple test program, and
> it
> appears not to work the way other subclasses of Stream work.  Here's the
> test
> program, which should just copy stdin to stdout, but seems to do
> absolutely nothing.
>
> void main () {
>   foreach(char[] line; din) {
>       writefln(line);
>   }
> }
>
> Similar results occur when I use the readLine method.

*shrug*

I never had any problems using it.

Never mind.  The problem was I had another test.exe file at a higher level in my path.

"dsimcha" <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:g587ej$1cp1$1@digitalmars.com...
> Never mind.  The problem was I had another test.exe file at a higher level in my path.

I hate those kinds of issues ;)