To put the short story long, I have this app which I can use via Win32::OLE. It's "mildly" documented and supported. I'm on my own.

There come with it some Win32::OLE=HASH objects. Each of them can do $obj->print. It prints some content directly to screen (i.e. STDOUT). If only it returned the content as string or something, such that I could use it, say, to print it to browser.

I can't tell if there're ways to do that with those objects. Although I can "dump" the objects and get the raw data I need, they're not formatted and can comprise of complicated data structure. I don't want to reinvent the print methods for them all. Therefore, I thought, if I could capture the content of $obj->print, it would be good.

So, can I possibly redirect STDOUT to a scalar variable, without using filehandle and writing it to a file first? Or should I deal with the issue differently?

Thanks.

In reply to Redirect STDOUT to Scalar W/o Filehandle? by chunlou

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