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If it's a linear feed, you can probably use a FIFO pipe (assuming Unix, I don't know how easy it is on Windows). man mkfifo. Basically it's a file that exists purely as a place for ... well, once process to feed into and another to read out of. You use it by (once making it) by simply having one process open it for writing, and the other for reading.

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Re^4: Passing Data Between Perl Programs
by jmmitc06 (Beadle) on Jul 30, 2013 at 04:36 UTC

    Thanks for the reply and sorry it took so long to respond, very busy at work. Yeah, I'm in unix and I used your approach and got it working in some test programs. It appears to do what I need and is a good alternative to IPC modules.