I'm not sure this is doable. The idea is to automate a windows process. Basically the process in interactive mode runs as follows:

c:>myprogram
#### Welcome to myprogram
myprogram #mycommand1
results of mycommand 1 were:
1 joe
2 sue
myprogram #mycommand2 sue
your answer is: 15
myprogram #quit
[download]

So: 1) windows runs myprogram.exe, which itself 2) accepts non-system(i.e. myprogram-specific) commands which take input and produce output The goal is to automate this so as to say "run myprogram, then mycommand1, take the second output of the second line and run mycommand2 with this as an argument" Can this be done in perl? Sure I can do system "myprogram", but I am not sure how the rest will be captured and fed into mycommand1,2

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