Re: Need Help: Capture STDOUT without Redirecting

I feel dirty for even suggesting it, but perldoc perlsub tells you how to override builtin functions. I hacked up an example overriding 'print' that called CORE::print twice - once to STDOUT and once to a filehandle, so I know 'print' can be overridden. That won't work for you: I needed to call my print as &print and you said you've no access to the sub.

I feel even dirtier suggesting you look into importing your print function into CORE::GLOBAL.

It's definitely dangerous, but hey, the functionality is there.

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Re^2: Need Help: Capture STDOUT without Redirecting by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 04, 2006 at 22:13 UTC
You can't override `print`, because of its weird syntax for accepting file handles. You can create functions called `print`, of course, but you can't override `print`. That's why you had to change `print` to `&print`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]