Re: [Vala] Beginners question about keyboard input

["David Keijser" <keijser gmail com>]

2008/12/3 Frederik <scumm_fredo gmx net>:
> 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)