Re: how to parse output of an external program execution?

[Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com>]

> >Is there a away to execute an external program and parse it's output using the
> >gnome-libs?  
> 
> This is a little vague.
> 
> You can run an external program and retrieve its output using the popen()
> function in the standard C library. 'man popen' for info.
> 
> Any parsing should be pretty much independant of running the external
> program - you'd need to say what data you want to parse in order for us to
> tell you whether the parser is in GNOME or not :)

What I'm doing is calling a program that generates text (XML).  I want to parse
the output of an external program that generates XML.

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