Changing System.in in eclipse to read from a file

Question

This seems like kind of a silly question but is there a way to change the standard in in eclipse. If I was doing this from the windows console it would look like "java myprogram < stdin.txt"

Answer 1

The way you do this in VS is to set the command line arguments when debugging to "< stdin.txt". Maybe the same will work in Eclipse? I'd check but I don't have it on this machine.

Answer 2

Here is a (fairly ugly) solution, as pointed out in this comment

Answer 3

I am using Eclipse 3.4 and I see a place to enter a file for stdin/stdout on the Common tab of a Java Application Run configuration. I am not exactly sure if it will work for stdin, but it is worth a try.