in reply to reading C data structure

It's unfortunate: The real question most probably has a good answer. But it's impossible to know what that answer is given the ambiguity and terseness in how you chose to communicate that question to us. I wish we knew what it is that you actually are trying to do.


Dave

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Re^2: reading C data structure
by asura (Initiate) on Sep 18, 2012 at 02:11 UTC

    My apologies for the ambiguity. I have a variable in a C function (it is a uuid). A perl script needs to use this variable for some operation. Is there a way for me to read this variable from the perl script. I am trying to avoid writing it to a file and reading from it (expensive). Thanks in advance...

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      If you want to communicate between two running processes, that will be much harder than just writing/reading the values to a tempfile.

      However, there is Convert::Binary::C, which was made for just that situation, debugging a remote process and dumping C structures from within Perl. Maybe that helps you.

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      That really doesn't get us much further ahead. Do you want write code to call Perl from C (possible), or write code to call C from Perl (also possible), or call an existing C library function from Perl (possible too), or execute an existing Perl script from a C application passing a value through (possible) or execute an existing C application from a Perl script returning a value to the script (also possible), or something else?

      Maybe you should let us in on the secret of what you actually want to do?

      True laziness is hard work
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        i am writing a code to call C from Perl. As I said I have one variable in a C code that I want to export. This variable needs to be used by a perl function.

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