RE: [LUG] Perl "system or exec" commands into a var

["Darke, Clive" <Clive.darke@xxxxxx>]

Mark,

Easy peesy!  There are two ways I know of.  The easiest is just like in the
shell, use back-ticks, that's the quote char on the top left of the
keyboard, for example: @lines = `php phpscript.php`.  If you don't want to
use the back-tick, use qx instead:  @lines = qx(php phpscript.php).
You should get each element of the array @lines containing a line of output.
You can also assign to a scalar, and the lines will be concatenated.

The second way is to use a pipe:
   open (PIPEHANDLE, "php phpscript.php |") || die "$!";
then read each line from PIPEHANDLE as you would a file.  That may be more
complicated than you need, but you have more control.  Let me know if you
need more.

Clive

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Cubitt
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 6/12/03 10:16 AM
Subject: [LUG] Perl "system or exec" commands into a var

is there a way I can execute a command with perl and put the output into
a variable, I'm guessing this is quite easy but I can't find how to
achive this.
 
if it help the command i want to run is "php phpscript.php".
 
thanks in advance
 
regards
 
Mark Cubitt

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