Thanx a lot, you saved my life!
Geoffrey Young wrote: >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 :) > -- http://www.meome.de ------------------------------------------------------- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG | Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------
