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ivanesi
ivanesi

Reputation: 1663

how to work with "process.stdin.on"?

I'm trying to understand process.stdin.

For example - I need to show array elements in console. And i should allow user choose which element will be shown.

I have code:

var arr = ['elem1','elem2','elem3','elem4','elem5'],
    lastIndx = arr.length-1;

showArrElem();

function showArrElem () {

  console.log('press number from 0 to ' + lastIndx +', or "q" to quit');

  process.stdin.on('readable', function (key) {
        var key = process.stdin.read();
        if (!process.stdin.isRaw) {
          process.stdin.setRawMode( true );
        } else {
          var i = String(key);
          if (i == 'q') {
            process.exit(0);
          } else {
            console.log('you press ' +i); // null
            console.log('e: ' +arr[i]);
            showArrElem();
          };
        };  
  });

};

Why the "i" is null when i type number a second time? How to use "process.stdin.on" correctly?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 42029

Answers (2)

brian hague
brian hague

Reputation: 33

This is typically how I get input when using stdin (node.js) This is the ES5 version, I don't use ES6 yet.

function processThis(input) {
  console.log(input);  //your code goes here
} 

process.stdin.resume();
process.stdin.setEncoding("ascii");
_input = "";
process.stdin.on("data", function (input) {
  _input += input;
});

process.stdin.on("end", function () {
   processThis(_input);
});

hope this helps.

Upvotes: 3

c.P.u1
c.P.u1

Reputation: 17094

You're attaching a readable listener on process.stdin after every input character, which is causing process.stdin.read() to be invoked more than one time for each character. stream.Readable.read(), which process.stdin is an instance of, returns null if there's no data in the input buffer. To work around this, attach the listener once.

process.stdin.setRawMode(true);
process.stdin.on('readable', function () {
  var key = String(process.stdin.read());
  showArrEl(key);
});

function showArrEl (key) {
  console.log(arr[key]);
}

Alternatively, you can attach a one-time listener using process.stdin.once('readable', ...).

Upvotes: 11

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