in reply to Redirecting OUTPUT of system($command) to an array

my $command="/usr/local/coms/command ";
my @array = `$command`;

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Backticks are what you're looking for.

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Re: Re: Redirecting OUTPUT of system($command) to an array
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on May 13, 2004 at 18:30 UTC
    Nkuvu,
    I would guess that this is 1 step short of being what is desired ultimately. The output likely needs to be split (by either horizontal or vertical whitespace). 
    my $command = "/usr/local/some/command";
my $result = `$command`;
my @array = split /\n/ , $result;

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    Otherwise the entire result ends up in slot 0 of the array you will have no control over how the output is stored into the array.

    Cheers - L~R

    Update: If the desired outcome is to split on newlines, then there is no need to store the result into a temporary scalar and split yourself as japhy points out below.
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      Except that readpipe() (which is what implements `...` and qx()) returns a list of lines in list context. So an array on the left-hand side is fine.
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      s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;
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      Thanks for the caveat, I'll keep that in mind. So far, every time I've resorted to using backticks, the system command I've been executing has output multiple lines of information.

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