Global Replacement of cout

[rathom]

I have a program with lots of couts. Now I'm wanting to save the output to a text file, so I need to replace each cout with fout (my declared command for my output file). Is there a way to globally replace "cout" with "fout" so I don't have to go through and manually change each one?

[keskiverto]

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ios/ios/rdbuf/

[cire]

It really isn't that much trouble once you've mastered the mystical "Search and replace" functionality of whatever editor you're using.

[Peter87]

Are you aware that you can redirect stdout/cout to file when you run the program by writing > filename after the command?

./your_program > output_file

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirection_%28computing%29#Redirecting_standard_input_and_standard_output