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# 8  
Old 10-11-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by junaid.nehvi
But i want to get output of system commant in some variable rather than writting o/p in a file "out.txt' and removing it everytime.
Replace these lines:
Code:
system("cal ..." >out.txt");
while(getline < "out.txt")
{OPFILE=$0;}

with:
Code:
while("cal ..."| getline OPFILE) {..}

# 9  
Old 10-18-2010
Franklin:
I tried following possiblities


while(("cal "month" "year" | tail -7|tr \" \" \";\"|tr \"\\n\" \";\" | getline OPFILE"))
{
print "Here...."OPFILE
}

while(("cal "month" "year" | tail -7|tr \" \" \";\"|tr \"\\n\" \";\"" | getline OPFILE))
{
print "Here...."OPFILE
}


while(system("cal "month" "year" | tail -7|tr \" \" \";\"|tr \"\\n\" \";\"" | getline OPFILE))
{
print "Here...."OPFILE
}

while(system("cal "month" "year" | tail -7|tr \" \" \";\"|tr \"\\n\" \";\" | getline OPFILE"))
{
print "Here...."OPFILE
}


But none worked...

Last edited by junaid.nehvi; 10-18-2010 at 03:01 AM..
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