Dear Monks

I have been lately wondering, if I could pass the output generated by an external binary file or executable file, which has been invoked by system command and that generates some output. What usually I do is, I write the output in a file and then read the output via normal file handling and parse the output or what ever I intend to do. 

###########################
##
##  $input contains the necessary parameters for the external executab
+le file and the output is generated into output_file created
##
###########################

`some_external_excutable_file $input >output_file`

open (OUTPUT,"output_file");
@output=<OUTPUT>;
close OUTPUT;

############################
##
##  I read the output file into an array and use the array for my furt
+her analysis
##
############################

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But the spurring question here is, isn't there any other way to pass the output generated by the external executable directly into an array rather than the way I did. Is there any default variable for accomplishing it?

In reply to How to pass the output into an array by saranrsm

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