How to store the output of a command in an array line by line in perl? [duplicate]

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For eg, I want to store the contents of the command ipconfig in an array, such that each line of output is stored in a new index of array, i.e. array[0] contains the 1st line output. array[1] contains the 2nd line output and so on.

How can I achieve that?

I would assign the captured output using backticks into a scalar, and use spilt and reassign it to an array. That's one way to go about it. — Ghost
– Ghost, Commented Sep 1, 2016 at 6:42
No, no, no @Ghost. Backticks in list context already captures the output into an array, one $/-ending line per element. — mob
– mob, Commented Sep 1, 2016 at 13:44
@mob: Oh! I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for letting me know about this. Will keep this in mind going further — Ghost
– Ghost, Commented Sep 2, 2016 at 9:39

Jens · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-01 13:56:04Z

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A simple

@array = `ipconfig`;

does the trick. Note that, as Borodin rightly points out, the array elements so assigned include the newlines.

edited Sep 1, 2016 at 13:56

answered Sep 1, 2016 at 6:49

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Borodin Over a year ago

@Coder: Remember that each line in the array will be terminated by a newline character which, depending on your application, may need to be chomped.

Coder Over a year ago

Got it! Thanks :)

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