Hello Monks, A few days ago monk Kyle helped me out with redirecting stdin to Oracle's sql*plus program. It worked like a charm. Now I am stuck about capturing the stdout messages generated by sql*plus to a scalar variable. I used IO::String and it did not work. Then I tried the following code, which also failed to capture the stdout from sql*plus. Interestingly enough, I was able to capture simple print statement's output using both IO::String as well as the code below. 
use strict;
use warnings;

my $TEMP1;
my $OLD_STDOUT_HANDLE;
my $NEW_STDOUT_HANDLE;
open NEW_STDOUT_HANDLE, ">&STDOUT";
close STDOUT;
open STDOUT, ">", \$TEMP1;

open my $pipe_fh, '|-', "sqlplus.exe -s scott/tiger\@butthead"
    or die "Can't open pipe: $!";
print {$pipe_fh} <<"END_OF_SQL"
set echo off
set lines 1000
set trims on
set serverout on size 999999
set feed off
exec dbms_output.put_line('Hello There');
exit;
END_OF_SQL
;
close $pipe_fh;

close STDOUT;
open STDOUT, ">&NEW_STDOUT_HANDLE";
print "6.\n";
print $TEMP1;

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I would once again greatly appreciate your help.

Regards.

Ash

In reply to Question: Redirection of stdout to scalar variable by jujiro_eb

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