Irfan J Sayed <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled on Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:46 AM:
> Hi, > > I am executing following command. > > my @activity = system "cleartool lsactivity -short -view > Admin_Irfan_Project_int"; > > but the output of this command is not storing in the array. array is > empty. This is what people generally do if their perl program is not doing what they want. 1. print output of @activity.... hmmm. its some number... why number.. Let me look me in the manual of system command for the possible values it returns. So I do perldoc -f system (or google if I wish). [...] The return value is the exit status of the program as returned by the C<wait()> call. [...] oh.. so this is not the function I want. If you read further, you will see [...] This is I<NOT> what you want to use to capture the output from a command, for that you should use merely backticks or C<qx//>, as described in L<perlop/"`STRING`">. [...] Eurika, I found the answer. Use either qx// or ``. I do perldoc perlop read the section under qx// and `STRING`. Change the line to @activity = `cleartool lsactivity -short -view Admin_Irfan_Project_int`; Its now working. Enough work for today. Have a cup of coffee. --Ankur -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
