System() function

[Brian Chapman]

vilva at csvax.csc.lsu.edu (Vilva Natarajan) writes:


>I am trying to do system("man cat | wc -c") in my program, and i need
>to store the value returned by "wc" in a variable declared in my program.
>I dont want to redirect it to a file and then read from the file.
>Please advice.


Try looking in to popen() rater than system().  popen()
is the same thing except you get pipes to and from the
command.

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