🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:46:51 -0400, JF Jolin <jfj@nospam.com> wrote:

>14 Oct 2004 09:34:00 -0400, Jeff Kish <jeff.kish@mro.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> If I wanted to write an app that accepted output from another program,
>> say, stdou and was able to read the input stream, how would I go about
>> that?
>>
>>
>> For example, say I frequently do this at the command line:
>>
>> grep -di "<tag" *.xml
>>
>> and wanted to pipe all the matches to an app that would be able then
>> to parse the input, what would be the general approach, and if
>> possible the call's I'd need to make to either the VCL or API to have
>> this occur?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jeff Kish
>>
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>Simple basic instructions in a console application would do the work.
>
>Upper.c
>-------
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <string.h>
>void main(void)  {
>   char LineRead[255];
>   while (fgets(LineRead, sizeof(LineRead), stdin))
>     fputs(strupr(LineRead), stdout);
>}
>
>followed by:   grep -di "<tag" *.xml | Upper.exe
>
>In a non-console application you can use dedicated API among:
>
>GetStdHandle
>CreateFile
>CreateConsoleScreenBuffer
>ReadFile
>WriteFile
>DuplicateHandle
>CloseHandle
>
>
>JF Jolin
>[Montreal, Canada]
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thanks. I guess I'd start off with getstdhandle and go from there?