On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Poonam P wrote:

I need to capture the numeric value of qmail-qstat in some variable and process it further in a Perl Shell Scrip.

umm, what is qmail-qstat and what do you mean by value?

anyway, there are two ways to capture the `value' of a program in perl - depending on what you mean by value.

if you meant the output of the program, then do this:

my $output = `qmail-qstat`; # you may have to give the full path.

if you meant the return value, then do this:

system "qmail-qstat"; my $output = $?<<8;

of course, read man perlvar to fully understand what $? is and how to use it correctly. What I've given above is by no means complete, you *must* read the man pages to complete it.

man perlvar - for $? man perlop - for `` perldoc -f system - for system