On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 08:05 AM, Timothy A. DeWees wrote:
> Hello, > > I am trying to convert a shell script to perl because I need to do > some > binary math, and I want to add more flexibility in general. I'm a bit > new > to perl, but here is my question (don't laugh). > > I am trying to execute an external process (in this case dialog). Dialog > displays a menu to the user and will output there selection via stdout or > stderr. I want to take what the system call to dialog will pass to stdout > or stderr and assign it to a string. Here is what I am trying: > > $selection="dialog --backtitle \"$title\" " . > " --clear --menu ". > " \"Main Menu:\" 15 50 8 " . > " \"New\" \"Created a new Virtual account\" " . > " \"Edit\" \"Modify an existing virtual account\" " . > " \"Del\" \"Remove an existing account\" "; > > $tmp = system $selection; > try: $tmp = `$selection`; to get back results that command sends to stdout. > return $tmp; > > All this does is return the exit status of the program. How can I get it > to > return what dialog will pass to stdout? > > -- > Kind Regards > Tim > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
