Martin Haase-Thomas wrote: > > Hi all, > > instead of committing suicide after having tried and searched for all of > the day now i'd rather ask you: > does anyone know how to redirect STDOUT into a scalar variable, > so that a 'print "anything"' will not appear on STDOUT, but only in > my buffer?
try taking a look at Recipe 6.10 in the Cookbook (http://www.modperlcookbook.org/)... basically... tie *STDERR 'SomeClassThatImplementsTIEHANDLE' # do something that writes to STDERR untie *STDERR the TIEHANDLE implementation can be anything you want: Apache (to send to your browser), IO::String or IO::Scalar (to send to a variable), or whatnot... there's also an example in the Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Redirecting_STDOUT_into_a_Scalar HTH --Geoff # who is now contemplating a .sig for the first time :)
