From: ytomino <aghia05@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to redirect text output to a String or Unbounded_String?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 01:31:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <745e9171-7c45-41a7-afaf-cbe013c03196n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <331aa8fb-271a-4a3a-b95e-d10733cbc404n@googlegroups.com>
On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 11:17:20 AM UTC+9, Jerry wrote:
> Is it possible to redirect text output to a String or Unbounded_String rather than to a file?
>
> I know there are versions of Put that take a string as a first argument but I don't want to have to write a special-purpose version of a stretch of code just for this purpose, since I want to keep the ability to also output text to a terminal.
>
> I suppose I could redirect text to a file and then somehow read it back in as one string but that seems like a kludge.
>
> Jerry
If you are not particular about use of String or Unbounded_String, how about open_memstream(3) of libc?
Import and call open_memstream to create a C-style on-memory file at first, then you can create an Ada-style File_Type from it with Ada.Text_IO.C_Streams.Open.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-10 2:17 Is it possible to redirect text output to a String or Unbounded_String? Jerry
2021-06-10 6:50 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-10 7:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-11 13:07 ` Stephane Carrez
2021-06-10 8:31 ` ytomino [this message]
2021-06-10 9:09 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-10 14:42 ` Stéphane Rivière
2021-06-11 6:51 ` Stéphane Rivière
2021-06-10 17:06 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2021-06-10 21:12 ` Shark8
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