interactively catching STDOUT/STDERR messages

ckyang74 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to run a command xyz with Perl. xyz requires several input, basically like this:

name:
address:
tel:

I want to capture the STDOUTed strings (eg: "name:") in variables, but I do not want to use back-tick (I still want to see them on the screen).

Basically what I want is a Expect script like code, so that I can use it for repetitive input of names, addresses, etc. Could somebody give me some idea? Thanks.

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Re: interactively catching STDOUT/STDERR messages by Tanktalus (Canon) on Nov 11, 2005 at 03:50 UTC
If you're looking for Expect like behaviour, have you tried the Expect module? It may already do exactly what you want, exactly the way you're thinking of the problem.	[reply]
Re: interactively catching STDOUT/STDERR messages by blazar (Canon) on Nov 11, 2005 at 09:51 UTC
I'm not really sure, but since you mention STDERR in the subject, you may be interested in IPC::Open2 or IPC::Open3. If you're just interested in STDOUT, I'd use an explicit open, and then I'd print to "see them on the screen".	[reply]