[prog] C programming - capturing information sent to stdout

[Sue Stones]

Sue Stones wrote:

> I am trying to work out how to capture data sent to stdout for use 
> elsewhere in the program.
>
> Using libcurl I query a webpage, HTML code is returned and sent to 
> stdout.  But I need to somehow capture this output and processes it to 
> retrieve the data that I need.  What is the best way to do this?  So 
> far I haven't found anything that works, but its some years since I 
> did any C programming and I am a little rusty.  Any help would be most 
> useful.

I seem to have found the solution: a combination of freopen() and fork. 

sue