You should be able to do it, by waiting for the return value.
Ex:
viRetValue=system("Comnnad String");
or
viRetValue = `<Comand Stirng>`;
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Regards,
Rathna.
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:07:19 -0800 (PST), Harold Castro
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> Hi,
> I wrote a script with a line,
> system('vi ./config.txt');
>
> which when encountered by the perl compiler, pops up
> the vi editor and open the config.txt in the current
> directory. What if I would just want the user the view
> the very long text file, let's say, a list of
> something, and his answer to my programs first line of
> input is one of those lines contained in config.txt.
> When perl launches the vi editor, it simply closes my
> program and switch to vi, is it possible not to close
> my program when vi launches and after closing (:q!) vi
> would then return in my program with a prompt like,
>
> You have just seen the rest of the choices. Enter one
> here:
>
> Do you know how it is done?
>
> Thanks!
>
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