How to execute external program and process its output?

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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.