How to execute external program and process its output?

[Marcin Kuszczak]

Regan Heath wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:53:00 -0700, BCS <BCS at pathlink.com> wrote:
>> Marcin Kuszczak wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>  I am trying to execute external command from D program, and then
>>> process its
>>> output. spawnvp() doesn't seem to be enough as it does not return
>>> output,
>>> but just status as int.
>>>  How to achieve it in D (I don't know method also in C(++), so even
>>> this will
>>> help <g>)?
>>>  ---
>>> Regards
>>> Marcin Kuszczak
>>> (Aarti_pl)
>>
>>
>> IIRC somewhere back a few months ago, someone made a stream object that
>> did just what you want. You could even write to the program's standard
>> input by outputting to the stream.
> 
> Oh, me, me, pick me! Attached are the classes I wrote back then :)
> Let me know if you have any trouble.
> 
> Regan

Thanks! I will give it a try.

It would be awesome if such a class could find its way into the standard
library...

-- 
Regards
Marcin Kuszczak
(Aarti_pl)