Re: System() or the like

Yes.

I present thee with hoho_system(), it can be called with the silent option below to not additionally display output to stdout:

$type = hoho_system("$run", "silent");

Or, it can also be noisy, and may be executed like so:

$type = hoho_system("$run");

And for bonus points, I have included support for an optional global $logfile variable, which can be declared as the following optionally:

$logfile = "some_file_that_exists";

# on with the show, cider@compulsion.org

sub hoho_system {
   my ($cmd, $option) = @_;
   my ($returned_result);
   my $silent = 0;
   if ( defined($option) ) { if ( $option =~ m/silent/ ) { $silent = 1
+; } }
   if ( defined($logfile) ) { open LOG, "+>> $logfile"; print LOG "$cm
+d: $_\n"; }
   open CMD, "$cmd |" or die "failure running $cmd: $!\n";
   while(<CMD>) {
      print unless $silent;
      print LOG "$_"; $returned_result = "$_\n$returned_result";
   }
   close CMD;
   if ( defined($logfile) ) { close LOG; }
   return $returned_result;
}
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Using arrays instead of scalars in multi-line responses would be advisable, and for such you may change the $returned_result references to @returned_result, and change the $returned_result assignment line to push @returned_result, "$_";

busunsl: switched pre tag to code tag. htmlism.

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Re: Re: System() or the like
by busunsl (Vicar) on Sep 18, 2001 at 13:13 UTC

running it gives me:

syntax error at C:\WINNT\Profiles\int5398\src\test\xx.pl line 9, near 
+"if $option "
syntax error at C:\WINNT\Profiles\int5398\src\test\xx.pl line 19, near
+ "}"
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while () {

$returned_result will be empty.

And even if it would contain something, it would be in reverse order.

Please test your code before posting.

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