Re: Is it possible to write to STDIN ?

[DrHyde]

$ foo | bar

'bar's STDIN is whatever 'foo' spits to STDOUT. So if you can control how your code is executed from the shell, you can control its STDIN. For example ...

for i in `seq 1 10`; do echo $i|./myscript.pl; done

will execute your script ten times, each time with a different number on its STDIN.

[exilepanda]

Hey, this one is interesting and seem very likely what I am looking for... but please have a look for what I am planning to do, and could you advise can I do this inside the code rather than pipe it from the shell?

$ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} = "POST";

open F, "testplan.txt" or die $!;
while ( chomp ( my $data = <F> ) ) {

  ### DO ANYTHING TO MAKE $data BECOME STDIN ###  

  # the main() script that reads and handle the form
  # print final result
  # next test plan data
}
close F;

[DrHyde]

You could close STDIN and re-open it as a normal filehandle:

close(STDIN);
open(STDIN, 'foo');
print $_ foreach(<STDIN>);

The documentation for 'open' shows how to save and restore filehandles, and some other dirty tricks you can play.