in reply to Re^2: Parsing from another program (stream)
in thread Parsing from another program (stream)

> But I think open is the wrong tool anyway.

I used this approach in the past with great success! 🤷🏽

Maybe try providing an absolute path to the executable.

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> The issue I have is there will NEVER be an EOF.

I expect that you get an EOF at least when the process exits or dies. And this case should be covered IMHO.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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