Re: Perl threads - capturing value returned from sub

On Feb 26, 5:21 pm, "A. Sinan Unur" <1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Eric" <ecarl...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1172538201.694433.133140
@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com:

I am using Perl threads to launch multiple executions of a command in
parallel. The code to do this is:

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... code snipped ... edited version below

The problem is that I don't seem to be able to figure out how to
capture the return value in the calling routine. Does anyone know how
to do this?

You need to store the returned values in a shared data structure.

I had to write and auxillary script to simulate the external
application.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @retvals = qw( SUCCESS FAILURE SOMETHING_ELSE );
print $retvals[ @retvals * rand ], "\n";

__END__

Then, replace your script with:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use threads;
use threads::shared;

my %status;
share %status;

my @machines = qw( apple orange banana pineapple cherry );

for my $machine ( @machines ) {
my $t = threads->new( \&action, $machine );
$t->join;

}

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper \%status;

sub action {
my ($machine) = @_;

my $output = `s.pl`;
if ( $output =~ /SUCCESS/ ) {
$status{ $machine } = 'SUCCESS';
}
elsif ( $output =~ /FAILURE/ ) {
$status{ $machine } = 'FAILURE';
}
else {
$status{ $machine } = 'INTERNAL ERROR';
}

return;

}

__END__

C:\DOCUME~1\asu1\LOCALS~1\Temp\2> r
$VAR1 = {
'cherry' => 'SUCCESS',
'banana' => 'SUCCESS',
'apple' => 'FAILURE',
'orange' => 'INTERNAL ERROR',
'pineapple' => 'FAILURE'
};

--
Sinan

Thanks for your response, Sinan. I'll give it a try.

I didn't want to paste the entire code as I thought it would only add
clutter.

Eric

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