redirect stdout to a variable in M and NOT to a file
I'm trying to execute a nodejs process to perform some work on a string from Cache/Mumps over to nodejs, then return the result from nodejs as a string back to the code in Cache and I was looking at the `$ZF` logic - it will let me output the results to a file (i.e. temp.txt) but I dont see a way to just get the output set back to an M variable like (and I know this is not the correct syntax, but just for example)
S myOutput=$ZF(-100, "echo something") ;; wrong syntax but just for example
W myOutput ;; want to write out "something" but of course this doenst work
are there any other options to do this if I cannot use $ZF?
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Apart from just redirecting to a file, and then reading from that file, the closest you can get is to use a command pipe device:
The main drawback, relative to $zf(-1) or $zf(-100), has been that you couldn't get the exit status of the command. I think that is now possible, but I'm not sure offhand in what versions.
Note that command pipes are not supported in Cache for VMS.
Thank you for the help, here's what I used and did essentially:
S TRSTR="<tr><td><span>one</span></td><td>two</td></tr>"
S CMD="node ../pathToNodejsFile/file.js """_TRSTR_""""
S DEV="|CPIPE|1"
S EMPTY=0
open DEV:CMD:0
while EMPTY<3 {
use DEV read line
set EMPTY=$s($l(line):0,1:$i(EMPTY))
I line'="" D
. use 0 write line,! ; use 0 makes the write go to the default device - if you pass in an IO device you could say `use IO write line` and output to the IO device you have opened if you need to output somewhere other than the default terminal
}
use 0
close DEV
This is awesome, thank you for sharing! I was able to accomplish my use case with pipes, but this would work if I couldnt figure pipes out
Thanks again
Depending on where your output comes from you may try
SPOOL - the forgotten device
or
Execute Server Commands from Caché / Ensemble / IRIS
to get the output into a local variable or global