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> Sent: 01 October 2001 15:16
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> Subject: eval problem
>
>
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am facing a little problem with eval in perl.
>
> say I do the following:
>
> $a = "print \"hi\""
> > eval($a)
> hi> $b = eval($a)
> hi> print $b
> 1>
>
> The above piece of code, prints the output of eval statement
> on the STDOUT, and
> I only get the return status of the EXPR in eval statement.
> But I have no way to capture this output in some variable.
>
> Instead of this behaviour of eval, Can I get what I want
> .i.e.. Can I capture
> the output in some variable.
> Like here I am printing "hi" on stdout. But I want this "hi"
> to be stored in
> some variable also.
>
> Please help,
>
> TIA,
> -Mini.
Rather than use the eval command, use backticks like this
$A = `echo "Hello World"`;
print "Command has run, \$A is:";
print $A;
$A will contain the output of the command executed inside the backticks
HTH
Rod the IFFO
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