From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-12-06T09:14:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Capturing STDOUT from a system call (POSIX) into an array

On Dec 5, 4:57 pm, Venks <venkatesh.man...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the best way to capture STDOUT into an Array? I looked at
> popen3, open4, systemu but couldn't figure out how to do this.
>
> In short, I want to execute a system call like "ls -l" and capture it
> into an array. Of course, "ls -l" may not have proper delimiter but
> assume that the delimiter is TAB or COMMA.

lines = `ls -l`.split( /\n/ )