Monks,

I'm running linklint from a perl program on Win XP and I want to capture its output in a variable like so: 

my $result = `perl D:\\Perl\\bin\\linklint-2.3.5 http://www.perlmonks.
+org `;
print "result: $result\n";

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That doesn't work. $result is always empty despite the fact that the call to linklint works and displays output to the screen.

This does work: 

my $test = `perl -v `;
print "this is test: $test\n";

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$test contains the output of `perl -v`, so I assumed it would work the same way with linklint.

I also tried this: 

my @result = ();
open (TEST, "perl D:\\Perl\\bin\\linklint-2.3.5 http://www.perlmonks.o
+rg  |");

while (<TEST>){
    push(@result, $_);
}

close TEST;

print "This is result: @result\n";

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That didn't work either with linklint (but it does work with perl -v).

So, it *appears* that this is something related to linklint, but I'm not sure what that is.

Any ideas?

Thanks

In reply to Capturing output of linklint on Win32 by zod

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