Hi, I have just begun to use Perl for CGI programming. I have a situation where I run a command on the server through my perl script and try to retrieve the result of the command into a perl variable and then I try to display it on the web page: 
my $var = `property <dataid>`;
print "<td align="middle">$var</td>";

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This command (property) sometimes produces an output of size almost 0.5Mb to 1Mb for some values of <dataid>(I checked the size of the output by executing the "property" command on the web server CLI).
I have 2 problems in capturing this output in the perl variable:
1] Only part of the output of the command is captured in the variable when the output is large (i.e, when output size is greater than 0.1Mb). How should I take care of this? Is there any feature in Perl to capture very large output?
2] The other problem is that the output of the command has some XML in it and when I capture it in the perl variable, the XML part is lost (From the example below, all text between and including <List> and </List> don't appear in the variable). How should one capture such data since its not completely XML? Should I be using any PERL/XML functions? 
Sample output:
                                                              
Data <dataid> is not empty
Content has xxx entires:
------ similar text -------
------ similar text -------
  <List>
     <List1>123</List1>
     <List2>345</List2>
     ------------------
     ------------------
     <Listn>23</Listn>
  </List>
Loc has 40 files:
  filename-1
  filename-2
  ----------
  ----------
  filename-40

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Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Vinay

In reply to How do I capture large output in a perl variable by vsmurthy

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