Re: Non-buffered read from program

I have no idea about the whois command, but there are a couple of modules that seem to be relevant, most likely Net::Whois.

holli, /regexed monk/

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Re^2: Non-buffered read from program by arc_of_descent (Hermit) on Dec 30, 2005 at 13:23 UTC
Its not particularly about the whois command, but on how to obtain program output which blocks. The whois command is a perfect example for this. -- Rohan	[reply]
Re^3: Non-buffered read from program by Anonymous Monk on Jan 02, 2006 at 12:30 UTC
perhaps the backticks will give you a way. Then you can use something like this $myvar = `whois x.x.x.x` ; Then you can manipulate/search/test the output from the command, through $myvar. G	[reply]