How do I get the output of an external command in

Question

I want to have output of Windows command-line program (say, powercfg -l) written into a file which is created using Perl and then read the file line by line in a for loop and assign it to a string.

Answer 1

my $output = qx(powercfg -l);

## You've got your output loaded into the $output variable. 
## Still want to write it to a file?
open my $OUTPUT, '>', 'output.txt' or die "Couldn't open output.txt: $!\n";
print $OUTPUT $output;
close $OUTPUT

## Now you can loop through each line and
##   parse the $line variable to extract the info you are looking for.
foreach my $line (split /[\r\n]+/, $output) {
  ## Regular expression magic to grab what you want
}