> -----Original Message----- > From: Dean Theophilou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:07 PM > To: Perl_beginner (E-mail) > Subject: Returning a text string > > > Hello: > > I would like to exit a perl program such that upon > exiting, it will return a > text string to the calling program. How would I go about doing this? > > exit $SomeTextString; > > doesn't work, since "exit" evaluates the above scalar as an > integer. Thank you > in advance.
Normally this kind of thing is handled simply by writing to STDOUT or STDERR and having the "calling" program set up a pipe to read one or both of those handles. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
