Re: Synchronizing STDERR and STDOUT

What version of Windows are you running on? On Windows XP Professional I can do the following:

use strict;

my $cmd = 'perl -e "die( q[report this error] )" 2>&1';
if ( ! open( FIN, "$cmd |" ) ) {
    die( "Could not run $cmd: $!" );
}
my $input = join( '', <FIN> );
close( FIN );

print( "My input was:\n$input\n--end--\n" );
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which outputs the following:

C:\temp>perl -w perlwinredirect.pl
My input was:
report this error at -e line 1.

--end--
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Re^2: Synchronizing STDERR and STDOUT by Ovid (Cardinal) on Sep 21, 2006 at 11:13 UTC
There's no particular version of Windows. This is for TAPx::Parser which, hopefully, will run anywhere that Perl can run. Thus, I can't rely on any particular version of Windows. Hence my need to keep this as portable as possible. Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply]