-----Original Message----- From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 9:11 AM To: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: DBD::XBase, STDOUT, and IO issue > > Hi Guys, > > I'm using a subclass of DBI called DBD::XBase for reading Oralce DBF > tablespace datafiles, translating them into delimited text files, and > then loading them into MySQL with DBI. The problem is the only way > DBD:XBase can output the text file with field delimiters I need is it > slurps the whole file to STDOUT. So I did this (don't laugh): > > my $table = new XBase; > open STDOUT, ">data.txt"; > $table->dump_records( "fs" => "|" ); > close STDOUT; > > This does exactly what I need, except that now STDOUT is closed for > further output (like for print statements), and if I do not close it, > all STDOUT goes to the data file (I told you not to laugh!). > > I searched all night and cannot find an example of how to do this > correctly. Capture the table dump's STDOUT with IO::Pipe somehow? The > documentation of IO::Pipe is pretty sparse. Any suggestion is greatly > appreciated.
This should do it: use IO::Handle; no warnings 'once'; # perl doesn't see the 2nd ref in the string # temporarily replace STDOUT open( SAVED_STDOUT, ">&STDOUT" ) or die "can't dup stdout: $!"; open( OUT_FILE, ">", "data.txt") or die "can't create file: $!"; STDOUT->fdopen(fileno(OUT_FILE), "w") || die "can't fdopen: $!"; # print data to temporary STDOUT $table->dump_records( "fs" => "|" ); # restore STDOUT open( STDOUT, ">&SAVED_STDOUT" ) or die "can't dup saved: $!"; # close/flush data file close(OUT_FILE) || die "can't close: $!"; Hth, Philip
