hi

continuation of my everlasting problem

what i wish to do is to run a program : 


$|=1;
while(1){
  chomp(my $say = <>);
  ($say eq 'q') ? (exit(0)) : (print "\nI caught $say \n");
}

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in background.

once the program is started, from time to time (when there is a need) i wish to pass some data (a,b,c,d...) to it. i have no clue how to do this?? should i do it by creating some file that i can read and write to, that program in bg can somehow check when the contest is changed, or is there a way to directly send input data to it ? ... is there a module that deals with this ....

please help!!

thank you !

P.S. the program has to be running because it stores some data in memory depending on the input passed to it and latter that stored data is being accessed depending on a variable passed to it in a second iteration.

In reply to sending variables to a script running in a bg by baxy77bax

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