Re: capturing STDOUT

Use the IO::Scalar module, availiable from CPAN:

use IO::Scalar;
tie *STDOUT, 'IO::Scalar', \$a;
# do STDOUT-specific code here
untie *STDOUT;
# and now do something interesting with $a
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Re: Re: capturing STDOUT by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Apr 30, 2001 at 03:30 UTC
This is a good solution in a general context. However, one possible problem with this in the context of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is that on Windows you have to binmode() the filehandle before passing it to the constructor. This means that STDOUT would remain in binary mode after the untie. John. --	[reply]