Re: String issue?

[Ramprasad A Padmanabhan]

Werner Otto wrote:
Hi There,
I am having trouble with string creation.
I need to do something like:
    system("ping -s localhost 56 1");
This will echo:
     64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms
How do I get this echo'd value as a string value? I will be splitting 
this string up into segments to fill my fields in my database table.

Regards
Otto
when you want the output of one process in your perl script run it with 
a pipe or backticks

like 
@lines  = `ping -c 5 -s localhost 56 1`;    #dont forget  -c  or on unix 
like systems you will be inside an infinite loop

HTH
Ram
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