Running another program and reading it's stdout

[Stuart Moore]

I've tried searching for the following, but I've had no luck.

I want to execute another program from within my C++ program, and read
it's stdout in a similar way to reading from a file. I do not need to be
able to send data to it's stdin.

I'm using g++ on linux, but would prefer a compiler independent option
if one exists.

 

[Ian Collins]

I've tried searching for the following, but I've had no luck.

I want to execute another program from within my C++ program, and read
it's stdout in a similar way to reading from a file. I do not need to be
able to send data to it's stdin.

I'm using g++ on linux, but would prefer a compiler independent option
if one exists.

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