I'm looking at feeding some data to an external program from within Perl. Unfortunately, it is not as simple as sendng some variables to the program and letting it do its magic. I'd like to send the data with a HERE document. Has anyone done this? Thoughts?

the code would look like: 

open (EXTPROGRAM, "|$externalprogram") or die "Cannot fork to $externa
+lprogram: $!";

print LOG <<EOJ;
print EXTPROGRAM <<EOJ;

(lines to send to external program)

EOJ

[download]

If anyone has done this, might be helpful to here if this is even possible (don't want to resort to a shell script). I'm not at present able to actually test this out to see if it will work, although perl -c tells me that my syntax is clean :)

TIA

In reply to Feeding data to external program by nimdokk

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