calling java program from perl

[sun9]

Is it possible to call a java program through my perl code and use the return value from the java program in my perl program?

 

[stevexff]

Don't see why not, as long as it writes its output to STDOUT. Might be a bit slow if you are calling it inside a loop, repeatedly.

my @javaOut = qx{java myprog......etc};

print $_ for (javaOut);

Steve

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