Comparison of Programming Languages (basic Instructions) - Standard Stream I/O

Standard Stream I/O

read from write to
stdin stdout stderr
ALGOL 68 readf(($format$, x)); or
getf(stand in, ($format$, x));
printf(($format$, x)); or
putf(stand out, ($format$, x));
putf(stand error, ($format$, x));
C (C99) scanf(format, &x); or
fscanf(stdin, format, &x);
printf( format, x); or
fprintf(stdout, format, x);
fprintf(stderr, format, x );
Objective-C data = readDataToEndOfFile]; writeData:data]; writeData:data];
C++ «std::»cin >> x; or
«std::»getline(«std::»cin, str);
«std::»cout << x; «std::»cerr << x; or
«std::»clog << x;
C# x = Console.Read; or
x = Console.ReadLine;
Console.Write(«format, »x); or
Console.WriteLine(«format, »x);
Console.Error.Write(«format, »x); or
Console.Error.WriteLine(«format, »x);
D x = std.stdio.readln std.stdio.write(x) or
std.stdio.writeln(x) or
std.stdio.writef(format, x) or
std.stdio.writefln(format, x)
stderr.write(x) or
stderr.writeln(x) or
std.stdio.writef(stderr, format, x) or
std.stdio.writefln(stderr, format, x)
Java x = System.in.read; or
x = new Scanner(System.in).nextInt; or
x = new Scanner(System.in).nextLine;
System.out.print(x); or
System.out.printf(format, x); or
System.out.println(x);
System.err.print(x); or
System.err.printf(format, x); or
System.err.println(x);
Go fmt.Scan(&x) or
fmt.Scanf(format, &x) or
x = bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin).ReadString('\n')
fmt.Println(x) or
fmt.Printf(format, x)
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, x) or
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, format, x)
JavaScript
document.write(x)
JavaScript
Response.Write(x)
JavaScript
x = WScript.StdIn.Read(chars) or
x = WScript.StdIn.ReadLine
WScript.Echo(x) or
WScript.StdOut.Write(x) or
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(x)
WScript.StdErr.Write(x) or
WScript.StdErr.WriteLine(x)
Common Lisp (setf x (read-line)) (princ x) or
(format t format x)
(princ x *error-output*) or
(format *error-output* format x)
Scheme (R6RS) (define x (read-line)) (display x) or
(format #t format x)
(display x (current-error-port)) or
(format (current-error-port) format x)
ISLISP (setf x (read-line)) (format (standard-output) format x) (format (error-output) format x)
Pascal read(x); or
readln(x);
write(x); or
writeln(x);
Visual Basic Input« prompt,» x Print x or
? x
Visual Basic .NET x = Console.Read or
x = Console.ReadLine
Console.Write(«format, »x) or
Console.WriteLine(«format, »x)
Console.Error.Write(«format, »x) or
Console.Error.WriteLine(«format, »x)
Python 2.x x = raw_input(«prompt») print x or
sys.stdout.write(x)
print >> sys.stderr, x or
sys.stderr.write(x)
Python 3.x x = input(«prompt») print(, end=""») print(, end=""», file=sys.stderr)
S-Lang fgets (&x, stdin) fputs (x, stdout) fputs (x, stderr)
Fortran READ(*,format) variable names or
READ(INPUT_UNIT,
format) variable names
WRITE(*,format) expressions or
WRITE(OUTPUT_UNIT,
format) expressions
WRITE(ERROR_UNIT,format) expressions
Forth buffer length ACCEPT ( # chars read )
KEY ( char )
buffer length TYPE
char EMIT
PHP $x = fgets(STDIN); or
$x = fscanf(STDIN, format);
print x; or
echo x; or
printf(format, x);
fprintf(STDERR, format, x);
Perl $x = <>; or
$x = ;
print x; or
printf format, x;
print STDERR x; or
printf STDERR format, x;
Perl 6 $x = $*IN.get; x.print or
x.say
x.note or
$*ERR.print(x) or
$*ERR.say(x)
Ruby x = gets puts x or
printf(format, x)
$stderr.puts(x) or
$stderr.printf(format, x)
Windows PowerShell $x = Read-Host«« -Prompt» text»; or
$x = ::Read; or
$x = ::ReadLine
x; or
Write-Output x; or
echo x
Write-Error x
OCaml let x = read_int or
let str = read_line or
Scanf.scanf format (fun x ... -> ...)
print_int x or
print_endline str or
Printf.printf format x ...
prerr_int x or
prerr_endline str or
Printf.eprintf format x ...
F# let x = System.Console.ReadLine printf format x ... or
printfn format x ...
eprintf format x ... or
eprintfn format x ...
Standard ML val str = TextIO.inputLIne TextIO.stdIn print str TextIO.output (TextIO.stdErr, str)
Haskell (GHC) x <- readLn or
str <- getLine
print x or
putStrLn str
hPrint stderr x or
hPutStrLn stderr str


^a Algol 68 additionally as the "unformatted" transput routines: read, write, get and put.
^b gets(x) and fgets(x, length, stdin) read unformatted text from stdin. Use of gets is not recommended.
^c puts(x) and fputs(x, stdout) write unformatted text to stdout.
^d fputs(x, stderr) writes unformatted text to stderr
^e INPUT_UNIT, OUTPUT_UNIT, ERROR_UNIT are defined in the ISO_FORTRAN_ENV module.

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