Hi all and a nice Sunday :-)

There is a non-Perl-program pdftohtml to convert pdf to html (and I want to convert that hereafter to txt).
I can do that like this:

	system "pdftohtml x.pdf, x.html";
	system "myPerlPrg.pl x.html x.txt";
not very elegant :-(
I would like to do that without using that temporary html-file x.html.

- Either by getting the pipe into the invoking-prg (? possible, how?):
	..
	system "pdftohtml x.pdf |";
	# now read this pipe | (???)
Or to to pipe the output of pdftohtml directly to another Perl-prg:
	system "pdftohtml x.pdf | myPrg.pl"
but how do I know about and open this pipe within myPrg.pl? I don't find it in @ARGV, correct?

Thanks in advance,
carl

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