[Bug-apl] working with )HOST

[alexweiner]

Hi Bug-apl,

Currently, at a point in my code I do something like this:

⍝assume the variable 'yadda' exists and is correctly formed, as well as the read_file function

success←yadda ⎕fio[7] tie← 'wr'⎕FIO[3] "yadda.file"

)host ./shellscript.sh yadda.file yadda.file.new

yadda_new← read_file "yadda.file.new"

⍝end of code

My question is: is there either 1. a way to feed )host a variable (I don't think that is possible) or 2. a better way to implement this task in its entirety. I find it a small nuisance that I have to write and then read a file in my code to access non-APL stuff for processing.

-Alex