Re^3: passing values from perl to unix app and getting result from the app

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Hello, ChristieJS.

If I understand you correctly. You're working with callxps.pl, which is the XPSExplorer application/initiator, and attempting to pass input.txt, as argument(s) to that file.

If so, the problem (I suspect) is. That callxps.pl wasn't designed that way. If you were on a *NIX based box. You might be able to make use of "redirection" -- (callxps.pl < input.txt). But, I suspect, a bit of a long-shot.

Even if redirection worked. You're still going to need the keys. So that you can create key / value pairs. eg;

# assuming name, password are keys
my $name = qw(ChristieJS);
my $password = qw(SuperSecret);
# or
name = ChristieJS
password = SuperSecret
# or
name: ChristieJS
password: SuperSecret

and how to best pass those, largely depends on the format expected from callxps.pl. You might even be able to pass input.txt as

perl callxps.pl & input.txt

again, a bit of a stretch.

Honestly, as should be pretty apparent by now, I'm groping. We still don't have enough details to effectively provide a reasonable solution.

You might be able to find the keys in callxps.pl, and create a wrapper, that calls callxps.pl, passing the key values to callxps.pl. This, I think, for your situation, would be the best choice. But in the end. Without those keys. Providing a more specific answer/solution, is pretty much, a futile endevour.

Now that you have a better idea of exactly what's required, perhaps you can figure it out. Or provide better details, so we might be better prepared to answer.

--Chris