Re: [Bug-apl] working with )HOST

[Christian Robert]

I think you will have to "fflush()" the stream *before* it will be available in 
any )host command


Zi ← ⎕FIO[16] Bh fflush(Bh)

( From ⎕FIO '' )

Xtian.


On 2016-03-04 21:54, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Bug-apl,
>
> Currently, at a point in my code I do something like this:
>
> ⍝assume the variable 'yadda' exists and is correctly formed, as well as the 
> read_file function
> success←yadda ⎕fio[7] tie← 'wr'⎕FIO[3] "yadda.file"
> )host ./shellscript.sh <http://shellscript.sh> yadda.file yadda.file.new
> yadda_new← read_file "yadda.file.new"
> ⍝end of code
>
> My question is: is there either 1. a way to feed )host a variable (I don't 
> think that is possible) or 2. a better way to implement this task in its 
> entirety. I find it a small nuisance that I have to write and then read a file 
> in my code to access non-APL stuff for processing.
>
> -Alex