Print result of SKILL function to file

 Hi Tyanata,

One way that you can achieve this is by redirecting the printed output temporarily, so that information sent to "stdout" goes to a file instead, and then return output to stdout again to revert to normal operation:

;; open a temporary file to receive printed command output
tmpout = outfile("./tmpout")
=> port:"./tmpout"

;; set the printed output to go to the new file
poport = tmpout
=> port:"./tmpout"

;; run the command
ddDumpLibList()
=> t

;; revert the printed output back to 'stdout'
poport=stdout
=> port:"*stdout*"

;; close the output file
close(tmpout)

Now the file "tmpout" in the current directory contains the output of the ddDumpLibList() command. I hope that this answers your question.

regards,

Lawrence.

Hello skillUser,

Thanks for the reponse!

Proposed by you approach works perfectly.

Best regards,

tyanata

I have a similar question, trying to capture the warnings/errors of schCheck output in CIW to a file, but poport doesn't seem to work for me. the output file is always empty. Any ideas?

turns out the i need to write the file in append mode

Thanks Lawrence,

This is really useful especially when u trying to create a log file. Good sharing

How

I tried the above example to append output of a SKILL function to a file. But did not succeed.

Can any one of you help me to do this.

I tried the below example too but did not work.

tmpout = outfile("./tmpout" "w")
poport = tmpout
(axlGetWindowSession() ; function to get  ADEXLsession
poport=stdout
close(tmpout)

I'm not quite sure why you'd do this (it seems a slightly odd thing to want to save to a file), but nevertheless it won't work using this approach.

The fundamental reason is that when you call a function in the CIW, it doesn't actually print the return value to poport. It writes both the command you enter and the return value into the CDS.log, and then the CIW is showing a filtered version of the CDS.log (based on the log filter setting). It never actually writes to poport though.

A far simpler way to write this information to a file would be to do:

tmpout=outfile("./tmpout")
println(axlGetWindowSession() tmpout)
close(tmpout)

or you could use:

fprintf(tmpout "%L\n" axlGetWindowSession())

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks for the information! %L did the trick.

How can I compare a String with a List? I tried rexMatchp but ended with format error: *Error* : argument #2 should be either a string or a symbol (type template = "tS")

I want to match a string "manual" with result of function "axlGetAttachedJobPolicy(axlGetWindowSession())", result of the function is as below, can you please let me know compare a String with List?

=============

(nil FM_COl_CONFIG_FREE "ACT"

"300" distributionmethod "NB interface (manual)"

lingertimeout "30")

=============

You wouldn't compare a string against a list (although you could have used rexMatchList to do this). Instead it would be better to do:

rexMatchp("manual" axlGetAttachedJobPolicy(axlGetWindowSession())->distributionmethod)

Since the function returns a disembodied property list, you can use -> to retrieve the value of that key.

Kind Regards,

Andrew.