capturing values from system command

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

I'm writing a process that will send out credit card information to our
merchant provider and have everything pretty much completed....

After a series of data entry fields obviously, the data is captured and
then I pass along those variables to a shell script that creates the XML,
sends it to our carrier and I'm using a python script to parse it and then
shows the result at the bottom of the screen for the person who executed
the command.....
Since there really isn't a 'record' created yet, I can't really use the px
to bring a value back...
Is there a way to capture the results of my shell script back to the
processing that created it?
I know there may be a 'better' way to do all this but don't really have the
time to start over
Everything works great except I can't capture the results from the merchant
side (i.e. authorization code or declined and decline reason)

thanks

Scott
PDM
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