Run external program - Windows

[gerschwin]

Hi all

I'm trying to run an external app from within another perl script and want to do something like the following:

my $working_dir = "C:\Documents and Settings\somedir\";
exec ($working_dir.'myprogram.exe');

If I do it that way aroung then exec doesn't parse the spaces in the sting correctly. I've tried escaping them but same problem.
If I ran exec (cd, $working_dir); then it would work.

Whats the best way to achieve this?

Thanks

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

I don't really understand your statements but using backslashes in a double quoted string in Perl is generally a very bad idea.
You could escape all the backslashes or (possibly preferrably) swap them for forward slashes.


Trojan.

 

[PaulTEG]

Use single quotes, but I prefer the feedback for using backticks

@results=`$cmd`;

but that's just me ;-)

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