How can I run a program programmaticaly through command line and get its return value? I would like to have a way that works on both Windows 7 and MacOS X, but if I need to program it differently per OS I would do that too
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How can I run a program programmaticaly through command line and get its return value? I would like to have a way that works on both Windows 7 and MacOS X, but if I need to program it differently per OS I would do that too
You can use system to call a program and retrieve its return value.
An example would be