Standard Streams
The standard library provides access to the streams that are attached to standard input, standard
output, and standard error in the operating system. They are present in the package core.io.std,
and are named:
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core.io.IStream in()- Standard input stream. -
core.io.OStream out()- Standard output stream. -
core.io.OStream error()- Standard error stream.
For text input or output, the system also provides versions of the above-mentioned three streams in
the core package:
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core.io.TextInput stdIn()- Standard input, as a text stream. -
core.io.TextOutput stdOut()- Standard output, as a text stream. -
core.io.TextOutput stdError()- Standard error, as a text stream.
The text version of the streams can be modified and set to any stream. This has the effect of
redirecting any output from the system to the supplied stream. The system also provides a generic
print function that prints to core.stdOut:
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void print(core.Str s)- Print a string to standard output.