
Marc Weber wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:37:56PM +0200, Janis Voigtlaender wrote:
Hi,
assume I have a program taking input from stdin. How do I call it from Haskell while feeding to it a string as input.
Sure, have a look at http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/process/1.0.0.0/doc/html/System-...
rnuInteractiveCommand does would you want (in,out,err,pId) <- runInteractiveProcess "cat" ... hPutStrLn "test" in hClose in outContents <- hGetContents out print outContents
Beware. The above code is broken. Whether it appears to work depends on your OS, buffering settings, and the size of any underlying buffers. The simplest safe way to do this is to fork a separate thread for one side or the other of the handle. Jules