Question

I have a solution that reads the command line for a file name and read its contents. I just realized that it would be neat if i could go

c:\MyReader.exe < text.txt

instead of

c:\MyReader.exe text.txt

if the contents of the file got placed as the args input in Main(String[] args). Is it doable or will i have to parse the file anyway?

Answer 1

This wouldn’t put the contents into args, but rather redirect it to standard input so the Console.Read methods would read from the file instead of the keyboard.