Suppress "print" from program in "do" command

[aj2taylo]

I have a segment of code like:

do "some.cgi";

This obviously executes some.cgi, however I would like to do the following:

1) I wish to suppress whatever gets printed from some.cgi

2) Ideally, I'd like to do something like "$result = do "some.cgi"; ", but not sure if this is possible. Keep in mind, I don't want to do a system call, as there may be a large amount of tainted data I'll have to pass in at some point.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Andrew

 

[MikeLacey]

Hello Andrew,

If some.cgi prints to STDOUT without doing any clever tricks you could re-open STDOUT to some other file.

Mike

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