coutreset

Purpose

Rebind the output stream cout to a given file.

Syntax

returnedOstream = coutreset(fileNameStr)

returnedOstream - type: ostream

fileNameStr - type: string

Returns

Remarks

In VisualText, a way to bind where outputs to cout() are sent.

Example

@CODE

# In VisualText, output to a file.  Outside VisualText, output to user-supplied stream.

if (interactive())

   coutreset("out.txt");

cout() << "Hello output stream!" << "\n";

@@CODE

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