Php to catch perl output

[Anon]

hi ppl,

I have a perl code to get some data fetched out of an spreadsheet..it accepts the filename as a command line argument and returns data in the spreadsheet...

I need to get some php help, by which i cud catch / get this output of the perl code..

need the solutions asap...cant get the data pumped to text file / databases et all....

regards,
sachin balsekar.

[sgbalsekar]

hey ppl,
i was able to get it out...just giving it here so that it might be useful to some ppl....

check the code given below...

$comm='perl CallExcel.pl Book1.xls';
$Arr1= array();
exec($comm,$Arr1,$op);
for($i=0;$i<count($Arr1);$i++){
echo $Arr1[$i];
echo "<br>";
}

The perl script accepts the xml filename as a command line parameter...and outputs the contents of the spreadsheet, with each line as a single sheet contents.
The output so generated is fetched into the array $Arr1.
thats that.

regs,
sachin balsekar.