Re^2: Use text string as stdin for system process

Yeah, that's pretty much what I wanted to do. But for some stupid reason, that's no-one can clearly explain to me, I'm being told I can't access their database except through the command-line tool. Don't ask - I've already given up asking :)

Open2 and Open3 appear to be coming up as good possibilities. I'll have to go and have a look. Thanks!

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Re^3: Use text string as stdin for system process by derby (Abbot) on Jan 05, 2007 at 16:18 UTC
Uhhh ... how are they going to know? -derby	[reply]
Re^4: Use text string as stdin for system process by baldywilson (Initiate) on Jan 05, 2007 at 16:33 UTC
The b***ards are going to check the source.	[reply]
Re^5: Use text string as stdin for system process by quester (Vicar) on Jan 05, 2007 at 23:14 UTC
Actually, you can do exactly the same thing in Perl, although it's considered stylistically sucky and is a hazard to security if there are variables that mischievous users can set to evil values. $x=`cat <<endl \| grep whatever yadda yadda whatever yadda yadda endl`; chomp $x; print qq{\$x="$x"\n}; [download] prints $x="whatever"	[reply] [d/l]