Running other program in perl

[ThePaper]

Hi

I need perl to call up other programs and basically halt till the external programs have completed the task. I tried using 'system', but perl does not seem to wait for the program to finish.

Thanks alot!

 

[greadey]

What OS are you running?

 

[bpinos]

Include your execution in only ` ` which are back-tiks. The charcter on the same key as the tilda character.

In essence you would want:

`/path/to/other/program`;

no system function call at all.

That should work!

 

[ozzy73]

On WinXX use the system() command.

 

[PaulTEG]

Ozzy,

Why are you advocating system() over backticks in M$?

Paul