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my $cmd="isql $connect-string"; open ISQL, "|$cmd" or die "couldn't open $cmd:$!\n"; print ISQL <<end; select * from whatever; ...
my $cmd="exec_isql.pl"; open OUT, "$cmd|" or die "couldn't open $cmd:$!\n"; my @results = <OUT>; print "First row is " . $results[0] ."\n";