Running exe using PERL

[sivamit]

perl execute exe

Hi friends,
I am new to PERL programming.
Is it possible to run other(e.g cmd.exe, msword.exe..etc) application files using PERL scripts..???

Thanks in advance..
-Sharon

 

[btbass]

perl run exe

You can use the system or the exec command.
There is more than one way to do these things, look them up in the Perl help files.

 

[sivamit]

perl run executable

Hi,
I could run wordpad.exe or notepad.exe.
But what if there is a software like Labview or VC++ where we need to 'load' a sourcefile and press 'Run'button to execute it..?
Can we implement this..? If it is possible just give me a hint(which command/options..).

Thank you..!!!

 

[btbass]

execute exe from perl

The system and exec commands are quite powerful, as I said, you realy have to look at the help files to see all the twists and turns possible.
But assuming you had an excel file called 'test.xls' in the 'C:\temp' directory and you had a path to the excel directory, you could run excel and open the file like this:

@args = ("excel.exe", "C:\\Temp\\test.xls");
    system(@args) == 0  or die "system @args failed: $?"