Etienne Ledoux wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a program that does a search on a db and prints the output to > the screen. If there is a lot of output how can I a stop/continue > displaying it. like 'ls -l |more' would do. or anything |more for > that matter.
Read perldoc perlopentut and search for the word "PAGER". (On the web at http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlopentut.html#Playing-with-STDIN-and -STDOUT) This shows you how to connect STDOUT to a pipe that will page your output. You typically use the user's PAGER environment variable to determine the program to use, degrading to more. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
