[thelist] Call exe program on win32 using perl
Michael Percy
mpercy at portera.com
Thu Jul 27 15:49:35 CDT 2000
I prefer to do:
`someprogram.exe arg1 arg2`; or
`someprogram.exe $arg1 $arg2`; or
$output = `someprogram.exe $arg1 $arg2`;
etc...
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik M. Sabowski [mailto:sabowski at wam.umd.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:04 AM
> To: thelist
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Call exe program on win32 using perl
>
>
> Well, i have done hardly any win32 perl programming, so i
> can't be sure
> that this will work on win32. but it's worth a shot.
>
> use the system command. the first argument you pass it is the
> name of the
> program, and the following arguments are the arguments to the
> program. so:
>
> system "program.exe","arg1","arg2";
>
> HTHB
>
> Erik M. Sabowski
> sabowski at wam.umd.edu
> www.wam.umd.edu/~sabowski/
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Christopher Ditty wrote:
>
> >
> > I have been given the task of writing a program for
> one of our groups.
> > They want to be able to call an external exe program
> from a perl
> > script and pass some command line parameters(sp).
> >
> > Can someone give me an example of how this would be
> accomplished? I
> > tried looking through my book, but not knowing what to
> look for, I
> > wasn't very productive.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > CDitty
> >
>
>
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