[ale] Perl Question

[terry at esc1.com (Terry Lee Tucker)]

Bob Kruger wrote:
> 
> A quick Perl question...
> 
> I have a perl script that I would like to run that includes a "system"
> command.  I would like to capture the result of this system command to a
> perl variable that I can use later.
> 
> example
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> #The following system command generates a Julian date
> system('date +%j') ;
> print "The Julian date is $d " ;
> 
> The question is how to capture the output of the system command to the
> variable $d.
> 
> As always, thanks in advance for any assistance.
> 
> Regards - Bob Kruger

$d = `date +%j`;
print "The Julian date is $d";

Enclose the system command in "backtics" as above.
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