Hello folks,
Novice type question here.
I'm working with a very simple app here that takes a series of strings
from the console. Once the end user has finished inputting the
strings they are individually processed and the result displayed back
to the console.
The problem I am having occurs during I/O redirection. Here is where
I am at the moment.
1) Run program with keyboard input and output redirected to file.
Never saw the prompt for the end user as it went straight to the
file. Fixed this, or so I thought, by having the end user prompt
displayed using cerr. Works like a charm, until we go to test
number 2.
2) Run program with both input and output being redirected. My user
prompt prints to the console before every line it accepts from the
input file. There are no problems with the output to the second
file from this operation. As my test suite consisted of ten
strings just to keep this simple one can see where, on large
files this behaviour would be annoying at the least but a big
performance hit no matter. I thought of using argc and argv but
when I/O redirection is in play it appears the argument count is
always 1 (program name) so is useless to me at this point.
My questions are:
Is the solution in problem 1 a reasonable approach to problem 1?
Given 1 works, how do I resolve the dilemma I now have at 2?
Thanks very much in advance.
Ken
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"Rick N. Backer" <ke********@NsOhSaPw.cAaM> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:l3********************************@4ax.com... Hello folks,
Novice type question here.
I'm working with a very simple app here that takes a series of strings from the console. Once the end user has finished inputting the strings they are individually processed and the result displayed back to the console.
The problem I am having occurs during I/O redirection. Here is where I am at the moment.
I/O redirection is something your OS does to you. C++ does not know or care
about such features. But there might be some function in your compiler's
library telling you whether input and/or output have been redirected. I have
seen isatty or _isatty in several libraries, so that's what I would look
for, first.
HTH
Heinz
Heinz Ozwirk wrote: "Rick N. Backer" <ke********@NsOhSaPw.cAaM> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:l3********************************@4ax.com... Hello folks,
Novice type question here.
I'm working with a very simple app here that takes a series of strings from the console. Once the end user has finished inputting the strings they are individually processed and the result displayed back to the console.
The problem I am having occurs during I/O redirection. Here is where I am at the moment. I/O redirection is something your OS does to you. C++ does not know or care about such features. But there might be some function in your compiler's library telling you whether input and/or output have been redirected. I have seen isatty or _isatty in several libraries, so that's what I would look for, first.
Thank you for this. It was indeed the other half of the answer that I
was missing. HTH Heinz This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics
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