Newbie Question: Getting User Input

[David Palmer]

I've only been playing around with ooc for about a week, but I feel like I'm blind to what should be an outrageously simple use case. How do I get input from the user in the terminal? All I want to do is pause execution while the user types in a line of text, and capture that text when he or she hits the return key. Is there an out of the box solution?

Thanks,

DP

[Amos Wenger]

Hey David,

Here's a simple solution that should work everywhere (tested on OSX, I'm sure it works on Linux, less sure on Windows):

import io/FileReader

"> " print()

line := stdin readLine()

"Read line: %s" printfln(line)

`stdin` is a file descriptor, and `readline` is a function on FileDescriptor if I recall correctly.

That said, if you want proper console output I'd recommend looking into readline:

https://github.com/nddrylliog/ooc-readline/

Or linenoise:

https://github.com/nddrylliog/ooc-linenoise

Cheers,

- Amos

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[David Palmer]

That was simple! Thanks for the quick reply, it works just fine. (On OSX. I haven't tested it on Windows.)

DP