ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote:
> A filehandle to run a program ?!! And what is that pipe symbol doing there?
> Would appreciate any pointers to how this works or where I can read up
> about this.
Yes Perl can use pipes in open.
See:
perldoc -f open http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open.html
perld
On 10/28/09 Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:00 PM, "ANJAN PURKAYASTHA"
scribbled:
> Trying to learn how to run Gnuplot via a Perl script I came across the
> following helpful example:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # Generate postscript and png plot with GNUplot from Perl
> # Author: Ioan Vancea
> # Usage: Give "da
