Read String from Terminal in Objective C...

the terminal is stdin (standard in)

Here are some resources:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1419444/taking-command-line-input-in-objectiv e-c

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9027531/working-with-user-input-in-objective- c-foundation-command-line-utility

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8360809/dead-simple-example-of-an-interactive -command-line-application-in-c-or-objective

You have two choices. You can a do a C implementation, remember you can write C code your not forced to use Objective-C.

Or if you want an Objective-C solution look at the documentation for NSFileHandle specifically the class method +fileHandleWithStandardInput. Also look in the documentation for Reading and Writing using NSFileHandle and Making Disk Reads at the Posix level.

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