How to capture stdout into a string?

[Michael Davis]

Hi,

I'm using libftp. The FTP.dir() function gets the remote directory listing 
and prints it to standard out. How can I capture that in a string?

If I were using an external process, I know I could open a pipe to it. But 
it's not an external process.

I'm sure there's a tricky way of doing it by getting the file descriptor for 
stdout and reading from it directly, but I was hoping to avoid going that 
low-level. I will if I must though.

Thanks in advance,
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Michael Davis
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