From: Francesco del Vecchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've got a weird problem using an external program that get the input
> from "stardard input"
>
> I've got to call it (and easily do this with "system('myprogramname')"
> but I've to feed this program with an XML file that generally is
> passed via standard input with a "filename | myprogramname" in the
> shell, but in my case it is in a variable of my perl program
>
> How can I do it without write a file on the filesystem?
open PIPE, '|myprogramname params'
or die "Failed to start myprogramname: $!\n";
print PIPE $all_the_data_you_need;
close PIPE; # this closes the program's STDIN.
Please read
perldoc perlipc
Jenda
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