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in reply to execute a vbscript from a perl script.

but this script will not be executed.
Does it print anything? Did you check $? or $! for error codes or explanations?
$ perl -E'qx(thereisnosuchcommand); say "$? $!"' -1 No such file or directory
Sorry if my advice was wrong.