SPUG: redirecting STDIN

[Peter Dueber]

I have some code like this:

$x="some-string";
system("TheirProg arg1 arg2..... <in_file>");

TheirProg expects input from either the file "in_file", or from STDIN if in_file 
is equal to "-".  

I don't have the source for TheirProg and I would like STDIN to instead be the 
contents of string $x.

Can this be done?


Peter Dueber, Esq.
HIVNET Statistical Center
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Phone: 206.667.6568
Fax  : 206.667.4812
Email: peter at hivnet.fhcrc.org


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