Hi, Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix? eg. system("date");
I like to store the date output to a variable. The only way I know of is to open and write the output to a file and then read in to a variable. Is there a simpler way? Thanks in advance. Geraldine -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>