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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Martin Haase-Thomas <mh...@meome-ag.de> on 2002/03/06 14:36:12 UTC

[OT] redirect STDOUT

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?

desperate
Martin

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Re: [OT] redirect STDOUT

Posted by Martin Haase-Thomas <mh...@meome-ag.de>.
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 :)
>

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Re: [OT] redirect STDOUT

Posted by Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>.
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 :)