dumping C output to a variable or text file..

[Anonymous Monk]

Hello... We are running a Perl script that we're trying to get working correctly. It supposed to be running a C script half way through which will retrieve all records in a database. We would like the records to be in a variable or text file that we could read from. We tried using open, exec, system..all of them.. The script using Open works on the server (in telnet), but not in the browser???? when trying to print the variable in the browser its blank. Any Ideas? Thanks -Mike

[MZSanford]

Please, make a small exmaple program, which exibits the same problem, and post that in <code> tags. Without that, we will all be guessing.

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[rdfield]

Why do you need to use C to retrieve data from a database? I presume you must have (as yet unexplained) some very good reasons for not using DBI?

rdfield