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tests/standalone/src/io/ProcessStdIOScript2.dart

+// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+//
+// Utility script to echo strings in various formats to stdout or
+// stderr.
+
+#import("dart:io");
+
+writeData(data, encoding, stream) {
+  if (stream == "stdout") {
+    stdout.writeString(data, encoding);
+  } else if (stream == "stderr") {
+    stderr.writeString(data, encoding);
+  }
+}
+
+main() {
+  var asciiString = 'abc';
+  var latin1String = 'æøå';
+  var utf8String = new String.fromCharCodes([955]);
+  var options = new Options();
+  if (options.arguments.length > 1) {
+    var stream = options.arguments[1];
+    if (options.arguments[0] == "ascii") {
+      writeData(asciiString, Encoding.ASCII, stream);
+    } else if (options.arguments[0] == "latin1") {
+      writeData(latin1String, Encoding.ISO_8859_1, stream);
+    } else if (options.arguments[0] == "utf8") {
+      writeData(utf8String, Encoding.UTF_8, stream);
+    }
+  }
+}