LanX -
yep, 'Print' is 'print'. I pulled it off to format and some MS-auto-corruptor pretty-print capitalized start words.
(file-not-found) I could quiet that with a chdir, sometimes. - I tried pointing to the full path, that didn't work. The file is there, but various implementations of 'open' throw that. I see a fair number of other folks fighting that. But I think 'open' is the wrong tool anyway.
As for 'slurp', not the best term, I get it. The issue I have is there will NEVER be an EOF. I am reading gas usage as reported by the meter. And I can't close the file, either.
So, is there no other way to parse the output of another application as it is presented??

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

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