Thanks, I have learned something. My conception was that STD*
descriptors where sort of system constants. Now I see that you can
query, rename and store them into other variables.
So storing old STDOUT and resetting when done with all the other stuff
works perfect now.
Thanks again,
Matthias
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Use select() function.
Read perldoc -f select
Teddy
- Original Message -
From: "Matthias Kraatz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 12:20 AM
Subject: 're'-redirecting STDOUT back to STDOUT after writing to a file
Hi,
this might be a reall
Matthias Kraatz wrote:
in a cgi-script I wanted to prevent an executable that I call from
within the script from dumping output directly to the webpage.
This worked fine with 'open(STDOUT,">something-log.txt")'.
But now I want to write to the webpage again.
'open(STDOUT,">&STDOUT")' does not only l
