Fill variable with function output

[Anon]

Hi!

I really hoep you can help me. I've got the following problem:

How can I fill a variable with the return value of a function? This is about my situation:

I've got a forum (written in Perl) and a Perl-file which outputs the headlines of the forum (headlines.pl). Execution of the headlines.pl is easy:

virtual ("../cgi-bin/headlines.pl");

This works fine. Problem: I'd like to write the output of this function into a variable, because I'd like to print the results of headlines.pl somewhere else. Following code won't do it:

$variable = virtual ("../cgi-bin/headlines.pl");

What can I do? Any suggestions?

O.Little

[Anon]

You should ask that question on a PERL forum.

[Anon]

Well, not really, because I want to call the Perl-file with PHP and parse the output into a variable. Basically everything is done in PHP, only the file I need the output from is written in Perl.

O.Little