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Re: need help to passing argument to executable and get return the result

by TedPride (Priest)
on Aug 19, 2006 at 07:35 UTC ( [id://568320]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to need help to passing argument to executable and get return the result

You can call an executable installed on your system by using `script path`, and you can pass it a value by doing `script path arguments`. The script (if it's Perl) can then access these arguments the regular way, through @ARGV, and print a result, and you should be able to access the result if you did $var = `script path arguments`. I'll go test this now and see if my memory works properly :)
## print.pl my $arguments = 'beep'; my $var = `perl process.pl $arguments`; print $var;
## process.pl my $var = shift @ARGV; $var = uc($var); print $var;
If I do perl print.pl, I get the result BEEP, which means it's passing back and forth properly.

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