[Gambas-user] Reading the return from a shell command

[Dave sharples]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 14:58, Rob wrote:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 05:01, Dave sharples wrote:
> > I am trying to issue a shell command from gambas with a couple
> > of arguments and use the return value in my app but I an
> > struggling to get a grasp on how to do it.
> 
> You need to use the Process_Read event and grab the data as it 
> comes in.  Sometimes that's inconvenient and you want to do it 
> asynchronously, so I wrote the Backtick function, which you can 
> find in Help somewhere, but here it is again:
> 
> STATIC PUBLIC FUNCTION Backtick(cmd AS String) AS String
>   DIM result AS String
>   DIM s AS String
>   result = ""
>   s = Temp()
>   SHELL cmd & " >" & s WAIT
>   TRY result = file.Load(s)
>   TRY KILL s
>   RETURN result
> END
> 
> It's called "Backtick" because it does more or less what the 
> backtick (``) quotes do in the Unix shell and in perl.
> 
> Rob
> 


Cheers Rob,

I think you misinterpreted my original post, I had found
 your code as you say in the HELP, the problem I am having is
that I can get the 'return' but I need seperate it so that I
only have the first word of the returned string.

e.g return = "CAT DOG MOUSE"
I need to manipulate that so that I just have CAT

Does that make sense ?