capture output in perl

2005-02-28 Thread geraldine_1
hi, I would like to capture all the output in my perl program during execution. I have code that basically opens and closes an output file multiple times just to write the output. Because I have system calls between lines of code, I have to close the file in order to capture the output from the

output from system call

2005-03-08 Thread geraldine_1
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 un

Re: output from system call

2005-03-08 Thread geraldine_1
Thanks everyone for the input. Getting the date output is much easier in perl than I originally thought. thanks! Geraldine > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Ankur Gupta wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix? > > > > > > e