On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 01:08:19 UTC, Emil wrote:
is it possible to intercept the STDOUT or STDERR and capture
the output into a variable ?
some pseudocode to explain what I mean
string[] output_buffer;
stdout.capture_to(output_buffer);
writeln("test 1"); # not printed
writeln("test 2"); # not printed
stdout.release(output_buffer);
writeln("test 3"); # printed
writeln(output_buffer); # prints '["test 1","test 2"]'
No.
Please keep in mind, that in Linux, for example, stdout is a file
...
writeln() interacts with OS API, which, of course, has nothing to
do with internal data structures of your application.
What you could probably do is replace writeln() with a custom
logger. In your logger implementation you can add such
functionality.