Jay Savage said:
> On 8/23/05, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a CGI script that I need to display the output of a shell
>> program,
>> basically a simple C program that parses some text.
>>
>> The output is right to the browser, and I don't want it to be creating
>> any
>> new files or anything. I have a data field that has a blob and that
>> blob
>> needs to be parsed and the output returned to the browser.
>>
>> What is a good way to do this:
>>
>> while ( my ($row ) = $sth->fetchrow_hashref ) {
>> my $raw_data = $row->{BLOB};
>> my $parsed_data = system ("echo $raw_data|pasrer");
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> of course that doesn't work, but what would be the right way to do it?
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> --
>> Scott
>>
>
> Use backticks.
>
> $data = `/path/to/parser $raw_data`
That was easy! Thanks. :)
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Scott
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