Executing a .exe console app

[nikhilkumar18]

I have developed a console app . The .exe is to be executed through a perl program.
I am a newbie to perl , can some provide me some info on this - How to execute the exe from perl. Also the .exe takes two parameters as files, how can i give them ?

Please share any links you have which can provide some help regarding the query here.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Nikhil

[geek491]

I have developed a console app . The .exe is to be executed through a perl program.
I am a newbie to perl , can some provide me some info on this - How to execute the exe from perl. Also the .exe takes two parameters as files, how can i give them ?

Please share any links you have which can provide some help regarding the query here.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Nikhil

So u want the console .pl application to run as a .EXE application?

U need to install PAR module using PPM.. open comand prompt and type ppm

ppm> install PAR
...
..
ppm> quit

this will install the par module... to create exe of your program type the following in general cmd prompt

pp -o program.pl program.EXE

this will create an EXE file for u.

hope it helped.
geek491

[nikhilkumar18]

I guess you dint get my point ..
I will rephrase it again

I already have a tool -> parsing.exe with me . I developed it with VC++.
its a command line tool. It parses a text file and tell me whether a particular string is present or not in that text file.

I want to execute the parsing.exe tool through the perl script.
as in whenever the perl script gets executed the tool should also get executed.

Regards
Nikhil

[Yannis livassov]

You possibly mean backtick operators. They work like this:

my $errmessage = `tar -zcf $outfile @files`;

Whatever is between ` and ` will be executed in the command line of current operational system (no matter what system it is).

$errorcode = `any_command.exe any_param`;

if you are not interesting in error code you can execute it like this:

`executable_file.exe`;

[GunnarH]

You possibly mean backtick operators. They work like this:

my $errmessage = `tar -zcf $outfile @files`;

Not quite. What's returned is STDOUT, not STDERR. See the docs.