You could do this
$returned = `spam -momittag -c $tooldir/nsgmls.cat $dtddir/$.dtd $file`;
$returned will now contain whatever your program would have printed to the
console.
You can work with the data in a perl script, or just save it out using perl
open OUT, ">$newfile" or die "Can't create $newfile: $!";
print OUT $returned;
close OUT;
Then again, maybe it's just a case of escaping the >, like so.
system("spam -momittag -c $tooldir/nsgmls.cat $dtddir/$.dtd $file
\>$newfile");
(not really an answer, just pointers...)
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Haynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 June 2001 16:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Invalid switch message
Hi all,
I am relatively new to Perl and my background is not programming although I
quite enjoy manipulating text using Perl, with this in
mind I would appreciate any replies being kept relatively simple, if that's
possible.
My problem, I am running an exe file within perl and receiving the message
'invalid switch' when I use the redirect symbol (>) to
output to a file, the script still performs the required operation but it
would be nice to remove this message. There follows an
example of the code I am using:
system("spam -momittag -c $tooldir/nsgmls.cat $dtddir/$.dtd $file
>$newfile");
Thanking you in advance,
Keith
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