Re: Parameters in command line

From: John Bokma (postmaster_at_castleamber.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: 20 Feb 2005 21:23:01 GMT

Brian McCauley wrote:

> yusufdestina wrote:
>
>> Can someone point me to a direction for this?
>> I have an application that opens another perl execuatable file. [PAR]
>> How can I pass vars to the perl appl.?
>> ex: testfile.exe name=value ...
>
> It it confusing to use an .exe suffix on a Perl script.

Read a bit more about PAR and pp and then you understand.

>> Tnx for ur time and help.
>> sorry for my poor english..
>
> Then write Perl. Show us what you have tried.
>
> You call external executables with argument using system(). RTFM for
> details.
>
> But the real answer is that you should probably not do it.
>
> Do not have the first script call the second.
>
> Cut out the guts of the second Perl script and make it into a module
> that is used by both scripts.

Again, read more about PAR and pp, RTFM so to speak :-D. 

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