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getline
into a Variable from a CoprocessWhen you use ‘command |& getline var’, the output from
the coprocess command is sent through a two-way pipe to getline
and into the variable var.
In this version of getline
, none of the predefined variables are
changed and the record is not split into fields. The only variable
changed is var.
However, RT
is set.