SPUG: redirecting STDIN

[Andrew Sweger]

On Nov 5, 1999 @ 1:46pm, Peter Dueber wrote:

> 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?

This is Perl, right?

open (F, "|TheirProg arg1 arg2") or die;
print F $x;

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