I am writing a c++ program that executes shell commands. I am using the popen()
function to run the commands. I would like my exec
function to return std::string
but I do not know how to read from a FILE
into a string. Is there a way to do this without reading into a char[]
first and then converting that into a string? If there are many which is the most efficient?
It is not possible. The popen()
function returns a pointer to a FILE
. You cannot read from a FILE
directly into std::string
. You can however convert char*
to std::string
which appears to be the best solution in your case.