Capturing output of Perl file in code

by Stephen Johnston <pepe(at)gainsay.com>

 Date:  Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:50:56 -0500
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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Hello All-

	I have a perl file which when browsed to, creates an html page that is 
sent to the browser. This code was not written by me. A client would like 
to have that output incorporated into my perl scripts, which generate their 
web pages.  I was hoping that instead of actually incorporating other code 
into mine. I could use some Perl call to inact that script, under certain 
conditions, and then place the OUTPUT of that script into a variable in MY 
script and spit it out when MY script is browsed to. So the user never sees 
the other script. I guess I would essentially like to turn a stand alone 
Perl file into a function. Can this be done? My hope is to MINIMIZE the 
code re-writing I have to do in the script I did not write.

Thanks Lots
-Stephen Johnston 

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