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Old 10-08-2008
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Originally Posted by userix View Post
How would I pass awk output to a perl variable?

For example, I want to save the value in the 4th column into the variable called test. My best guess is something as follow, but I am sure this isn't correct.

Code:
$test = system("awk '/NUMBER/{print \$4}' $_");
Why don't you use the feature provided in perl itself ?

To store the 4th column value in perl,

Code:
my @arr = split(/\|/, $var);
print $var[3];
Is that what you meant ?