From: Sky Yin <sky.yin@...>
Date: 2005-12-04T16:31:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Shell program

Thanks, Bill.

The yet another ruby shortcut works.

On 12/4/05, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> 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`
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> (See also: IO.popen for another way.)
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> Hope this helps,
>
> Bill
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