On Nov 28, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Kem Tekinay wrote:
My console app reads a bunch of text from stdin until stdin.EOF is
true. It
then does some processing before it needs to prompt the user for
more stuff.
The problem is, stdin.ReadLine no longer seems to do anything,
returning a
blank string without pausing. Is there a way to "reset" stdin so it
will
accept more text? Or is there another way to prompt the user to
enter text?
I think that this is what the method Input is for.
Charles Yeomans
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On Nov 29, 2006, at 15:20 UTC, Charles Yeomans wrote:
On Nov 28, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Kem Tekinay wrote:
> My console app reads a bunch of text from stdin until stdin.EOF is
> true. It
> then does some processing before it needs to prompt the user for
> more stuff.
I think that this is what the method Input is for.
I think the method Input does the same thing as stdin.ReadLine. But I
haven't actually tested it lately.
In the same vein, my understanding of Unix is that when you press
control-D to terminate console input (or equivalently, reach the end of
a file you've piped to stdin), then that's it, that stream is
permanently at EOF. I've never seen a Unix app where you can terminate
input and then give more input later. A more typical solution, I
think, is to terminate input with a blank line or a "." line or
something like that.
HTH,
- Joe
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