steambuf with multiple destinations

[CodeMonkey]

My program uses cout for all of its output. Currently the user can specify a silent mode that points cout into a log file. I'd like to have an option where cout will print as usual and to a log file. Possible?

Thanks.

[matsp]

Not really. You could (possibly) inherit from ostream and create your own type, that outputs to both cout and a logfile, but generally it is probably better to make a function that replaces your regular cout operations.

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Mats

[CodeMonkey]

Feared so. Thanks.

[Cooloorful]

Using the C output functions this is actually a rather easy task. Perhaps what you could do is see if you can simply redirect cout doing something similar. Your code would not likely be very portable but I betcha that you can whip up something.

[Codeplug]

Better late than never....bump with solution: Output string to both console and file at the same time

gg

[CodeMonkey]

Ah excellent. I figured the solution went that way but never put the time into writing (learning) the streambuf. Thanks, codeplug.