On 3/29/07, Brett W. McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 28 Mar 2007 16:00:26 -0700, sanofsans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I would like to be able to start a perl program from a C program.
> > 2 questions:
> >
> > 1) How do you tell my C program to go to a particular directory and
> > find the perl script?
> >
> > 2) How do I get my C program to execute that perl script?
>
> Easiest way:
>
> system("/path/to/script");
>
> or
>
> system("perl /path/to/script");
>
> or
>
> system("perl C:\path\to\script");Nitpick - I don't think any windows boxes have paths which include tabs. (the first two work under Unix-ish systems, the last one is for > Windows, although I think nowadays I think Windows knows how to > execute a Perl script directly like Unix does) Windows will recognise / as a path delimeter -- PJH Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
