use Perl

• Reminds me of… (Score:1)

  by phaylon (6115)

  …Scheme:

  (let ((str (with-output-to-string
               (write exprs))))
    (do-something-to str))

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  • Re:Reminds me of… (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    Or IO::Scalar in Perl. :)

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    • Re:Reminds me of… (Score:2)

      by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2008.02.12 16:27 (#61041) Homepage Journal

      You no longer need IO::Scalar since perl 5.8. Plain old open will now accept a scalar ref:

        my $str
        open my $fh, '>', \$str;

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      • Re: (Score:2)

        by jdavidb (1361)

        Cool! Thank you!

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