Problem in fetching the return value of the executed program.

[shrek123]

Hi,
I want to execute some script (May or May not be perl script) from a perl script and print the output of that executed script.
My Operating system are Windows and Mac OS(Unix).
I was trying the following code without success:

 
$Response = system("start test.wbt");
print $Response;
 
 

By the above code I am able to execute test.wbt but program doesnt wait for response.
or

 
$Response = system ("start test.wbt");
print $Response;
 
 

But none of the thing work.
Please help me what i m doing wrong also it would be nice if somebody could explain me why the above program fails.

Thanks!!!!!

[KevinADC]

I guess you didn't RTM. system() does not return output. You want to use the qx// operator:

$response = qx/start test.wbt/;