Re: calling external program from CGI

Seriously? test_process.pl is not a Perl function, and \"$myQuery\" isn't even close to valid Perl either.

my $output = `command`;
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Re^2: calling external program from CGI by stan131 (Acolyte) on May 07, 2009 at 10:16 UTC
Ikegami, I am newbie to CGI and still not able to what am I doing wrong. I have a perl program that takes parameter and generates an array. Now I need to call this program from my .cgi file and retrieve the array. Since program cannot return(only subroutines can), how do I invoke this from CGI and fetch the array.	[reply]
Re^3: calling external program from CGI by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 07, 2009 at 10:43 UTC
Processes communicate via file handles, and file handles can only transmit bytes (not Perl arrays). You need to serialize the array somehow. I thought you already addressed that issue using Storable?	[reply]