Program Communication

[RandomClown]

Hello,

Was not sure how to begin, or what to search for, so here I am..

How would I begin to make a program constantly read stuff from another program?

Console Read does not seem to be it.

I think console read only gets the launch parameters for the program.

I want an active communication instead.

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* Call the program I am coding "Program"

* Call the program to communicate with "Server"

Server will always be outputing data to console.

I want Program to take data from the server, interpret each line, & send data or do stuff if it needs to.

Ex:

console: 2010-11-08 01:20:27 [iNFO] <RandomClown> rcon save test

Program will read this line, & backup the server data.

console: 2010-11-08 01:20:40 [iNFO] <RandomClown> rcon load test

Program will send "stop" to the server, then restore the server data, & start the server again.

Thanks for reading.

[water]

Haven't done it myself ... but search the forum for "inter process communication" or "inter script communication" and you will find some threads that lead you into the right direction.