Scott Taylor wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a CGI script that I need to display the output of a shell program,
> basically a simple C program that parses some text.
>
> The output is right to the browser, and I don't want it to be creating any
> new files or anything. I have a data field that has a blob and that blob
> needs to be parsed and the output returned to the browser.
>
> What is a good way to do this:
>
> while ( my ($row ) = $sth->fetchrow_hashref ) {
> my $raw_data = $row->{BLOB};
> my $parsed_data = system ("echo $raw_data|pasrer");
> ...
> }
>
> of course that doesn't work, but what would be the right way to do it?
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Scott
>
You should have a look at the section "Pipe Opens" in,
perldoc perlopentut
Should be what you are looking for. I do assume you have a good reason
for writing the parser in C....
http://danconia.org
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