FILE out of memory

[Gerrit Hulleman]

Is there a way to assign memory to a FILE variable, allowing information to
be read from memory in stead of from drive?

I am trying to re-use an open-source package. This package uses a FILE*
variable to load information from a file. Te content of the file is present
in memory, and would like like the integrated package to use this stream in
stead of a file.

Situation:
Info = "<XML><Test/></XML>";
FILE *input =fopen('input.xml','r');

Writing the Info to a file and than point to that file would be possible,
but is there a way to point the input var to the info? I cannot change the
FILE type of the var, since it is deeply integrated in the package.

Gerrit Hulleman

 

[Karl Heinz Buchegger]

Is there a way to assign memory to a FILE variable, allowing information to
be read from memory in stead of from drive?

I am trying to re-use an open-source package. This package uses a FILE*
variable to load information from a file. Te content of the file is present
in memory, and would like like the integrated package to use this stream in
stead of a file.

Situation:
Info = "<XML><Test/></XML>";
FILE *input =fopen('input.xml','r');

Writing the Info to a file and than point to that file would be possible,
but is there a way to point the input var to the info? I cannot change the
FILE type of the var, since it is deeply integrated in the package.

No.
Not with FILE

If the package had used the C++ streams, there would be a way. But not
with the old C FILE functionality.