What\'s the easiest way to execute a process, wait for it to finish, and then return its standard output as a string?
Kinda like backtics in Perl.
Not looking fo
hmm.. MSDN has this as an example:
int main( void )
{
char psBuffer[128];
FILE *pPipe;
/* Run DIR so that it writes its output to a pipe. Open this
* pipe with read text attribute so that we can read it
* like a text file.
*/
if( (pPipe = _popen( "dir *.c /on /p", "rt" )) == NULL )
exit( 1 );
/* Read pipe until end of file, or an error occurs. */
while(fgets(psBuffer, 128, pPipe))
{
printf(psBuffer);
}
/* Close pipe and print return value of pPipe. */
if (feof( pPipe))
{
printf( "\nProcess returned %d\n", _pclose( pPipe ) );
}
else
{
printf( "Error: Failed to read the pipe to the end.\n");
}
}
Seems simple enough. Just need to wrap it with C++ goodness.