wfsp.

Thank you for your patience. Being a beginner, I appreciate yours and everyone else's help and patience.

Anyway, the code is working as a stand alone so I must be introducing something else that it does not like.

My PERL version is listed as 5.008005 in SunOS 5.8.

On the subject of a new scope. Does that mean I should do the following:

sub1()
{
  my $variables;
  my $buff;
  code
  code
  code

  {
    local *STDOUT;
    open( STDOUT, '>', \$buf ) or die "Write to buffer   ailed\n";
    mysub();
  }

  print "buffer: $buf\n";

  more code

}


sub mysub
{
  print "mysub output\n";
}

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Again, thanks. MNJ

In reply to Re^4: Need Help: Capture Print Outputs from a Function by mnj200g
in thread Need Help: Capture Print Outputs from a Function by mnj200g

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