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Re: Reading console output into a perlby duct_tape (Hermit) |
on Nov 25, 2003 at 21:57 UTC ( [id://310074]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
system returns the exit status of the program not the output. To retrieve the output of it, you can use backticks. Hope that helps. Brad update: double'd backslashes.. whoops. Thanks Corion.
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