How to get the vob space by using perl

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Re: How to get the vob space by using perl by Joost (Canon) on Oct 16, 2007 at 20:55 UTC
Are you talking about something related to rational ClearCase? If so, I assume (but I don't know clearcase) that there are command line tools for getting information about these VOBs. If that's true, your best / easiest strategy would be to run those tools from perl and extract the pertinent data from their output. For instance, you can get the output of a program as a string by running it using `` quotes: my $output = `/some/tool -and -some options`; [download] you can then do with $output what you will. See also perlintro. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: How to get the vob space by using perl
by Joost (Canon) on Oct 16, 2007 at 20:55 UTC

If so, I assume (but I don't know clearcase) that there are command line tools for getting information about these VOBs.

If that's true, your best / easiest strategy would be to run those tools from perl and extract the pertinent data from their output.

For instance, you can get the output of a program as a string by running it using `` quotes:

my $output = `/some/tool -and -some options`;
[download]