On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:34:59AM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote: > "Martin A. Hansen" wrote: > > > > hi > > Hello,
hi again > > > how to use an array as input for a external command called within a perl script? > > > > im looking to pipe the array to the extarnal program ... > > open PIPE, '| somecommand' or die "Cannot open pipe to somecommand: $!"; > > print PIPE @array; > > close PIPE or die "Cannot close pipe to somecommand: $!"; > i figured that much, but that is not the way to solve my gnuplot problem. i need to translate the following commandline to perl: (echo "set term post"; echo "plot '-' w l"; cat data) | gnuplot > data.ps where "cat data" is replaced by a pipe of some sort ... gnuplot is tricky because the "plot '-'" part means that the data is supplied followingly gnuplot is wierd, but i hope perl can unwierd it martin > > > John > -- > use Perl; > program > fulfillment > > -- > 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]