walkerd@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (David Walker) (03/14/91)
Summary : Can you reassign cout to a file? Expires: Sender: walkerd@maccs.mcmaster.ca Followup-To: Distribution: comp.lang.c++ Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Keywords: I have not been reading this newsgroup lately, so please forgive me if this has already come up : I am trying to reassign cout to a file in Turbo C++ 2.0, but I can't even determine if it is possible. I know that this is possible using stdout; it is the example of freopen on page 172 of the Reference Guide. I would like to do the same thing with cout, and since I have a LOT of code using cout, it would be a real pain to go back and use stdout. Borland's tech support think that this can be done, but can't tell me how to do it. All I want to do is reassign cout to a file so that all screen output becomes file output. If anyone can tellme how to do this, I will be very grateful! Dave Walker
ahodgson@athena.mit.edu (Antony Hodgson) (03/16/91)
In article <27DEC60D.18984@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> walkerd@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (David Walker) writes: >Summary : Can you reassign cout to a file? >All I want to do is reassign cout to a file so that all screen >output becomes file output. I'm not sure if you can simply assign cout to a file, but the following works (I think - I did it once and don't have my code close at hand) and probably does what you want. ofstream f( "output.fil" ); ostream sout; // for Standard OUT // put to the screen sout = cout; sout << "Hi there"; // to a file sout = f; sout << "Into the file"; Hope this helps. Tony Hodgson ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu