Re: Reading console output into a perl

[duct_tape]

system returns the exit status of the program not the output. To retrieve the output of it, you can use backticks.

$myVar = `C:\\configInfo.exe`;
print "output: $myVar\n";

Hope that helps.
Brad

update: double'd backslashes.. whoops. Thanks Corion.

[Anonymous Monk]

Awesome, Exactly what I needed to know, thanks.