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reply Kaitlyn Emmons <katemmons0 gmail.com> writes:
is there a way to redirect std out to a string or a buffer 
without using a temp file?
May 20 2020
next sibling parent Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:
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
May 21 2020
prev sibling next sibling parent Dukc <ajieskola gmail.com> writes:
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.
May 21 2020
prev sibling parent reply Basile B. <b2.temp gmx.com> writes:
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: --- 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; } --- something similar should be possible using mmap().
May 21 2020
parent wolframw <wolframw protonmail.com> writes:
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
May 21 2020