From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-12-04T16:20:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Shell program

From: "Sky Yin" <sky.yin@gmail.com>
>
> I'm using system() to execute a shell program under Windows. I wonder
> how I can get the result of the external program as a string, since
> the system() returns either true or false.

string = `program.exe`


(See also: IO.popen for another way.)


Hope this helps,

Bill