Win32: best way to Input to external program

Thanks for the help...I couldn't get it to work ;-(
(As a reminder, I am on Win32...)

open (THING, '|-', 'sort.exe');
my @unsorted = qw(bbb aaa ccc eee ddd);
print THING "$_ " foreach @unsorted;
close (THING);
# My assumption is that after I close(), sort.exe knows to start "sort
+ing"...
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outputs:
bbb aaa ccc eee ddd

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Re: Win32: best way to Input to external program by choocroot (Friar) on May 11, 2002 at 09:41 UTC
I know that the unix "sort" work on lines so perhaps you might need to replace : `print THING "$_ " foreach @unsorted;` [download] by `print THING "$_\n" foreach @unsorted;` [download] ??? "sort" reads all the lines and sort them in memory (and using temporary files), then when it receive an EOF on STDIN (your close()) it print out the sorted lines.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Win32: best way to Input to external program by smackdab (Pilgrim) on May 11, 2002 at 20:17 UTC
aahh, this is why I like asking questions here...ya always learn something new ;-)	[reply]