Re^2: passing parms to other software program

/me wonders if backticks would be better than system(). IIRC system() does not capture any output. See this for more information: How do I get both the return value and text? backticks vs. system()

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Re^3: passing parms to other software program by lima1 (Curate) on Apr 21, 2006 at 12:13 UTC
in most cases it is better to generate a temporary file with File::Temp, write the output in that file (e.g. system($cmd . " > $tmp_fn") ) and then parse the output file. this allows memory efficent parsers.	[reply]