one way to do this is to cat the output of ping to a file..or simply..
@u_there=`ping -s localhost 56 1`; # watch the quotes
Mandar
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>Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:58:18 +0100
>From: Werner Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: String issue?
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>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
>
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