2008/12/3 Frederik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Clément DAVID wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't use the Genie syntax but a working sample for vala is :
>>
>> using GLib;
>>
>> public class SumCol {
>>
>> public static it main(string [] args)
>> {
>> int MAXLINELEN = 128;
>>
>> int sum = 0;
>> char[] str = new char [MAXLINELEN];
>>
>> while(stdin.gets(str) != null)
>> {
>> sum += ((string)str).to_int();
>> }
>>
>> stdout.printf("%d\n",sum);
>> return 0;
>> }
>> }
>> <<
>>
>> You can simply cast a char array to string as the string class is only
>> a wrapper around NULL terminated unichar array.
>
> I would suggest using GNU Readline for string input:
>
> --------
> namespace ReadLine {
> [CCode (cheader_filename = "readline/readline.h", cname = "readline")]
> public extern string? read_line (string prompt);
> }
>
> static int main () {
> var name = ReadLine.read_line ("Please enter your name: ");
> if (name != null && name != "") {
> stdout.printf ("Hello, %s\n", name);
> }
> return 0;
> }
> --------
> $ valac -X -lreadline readlinesample.vala
> $ ./readlinesample
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Frederik
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I second this. readline is not only better but gets() is not even safe
(see man 3 gets)
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