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Is it possible to avoid literally writing to a file?

If this approach works, it should be possible. See the documentation for open, or IO::Scalar/IO::String

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Re^6: STDIN from CGI object
by vit (Friar) on Feb 20, 2011 at 19:51 UTC
    Yes it works. Would it be correct to do it through | this way: 
    my $stdin_str = "";
read (STDIN, $stdin_str, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

open FH, ">|" or die $!;
print FH $stdin_str;

open STDIN, "<|" or die $!;

my $q = new CGI;

close STDIN;
close FH;

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      Try it. I rarely use |, but it doesn't look like it would work to me , which is why I recommended opening to a scalar
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