Re: Opening external files with arguements

[Transient]

Are you trying to pass arguments to a command? I don't see why you would be passing arguments to a "file" you want to read from.

[void_Anthony()]

It is a simple test program. Basicically, whatever number is entered as the arguement, the program merely spits it back out. I want to be able to specify what arguements are passed to the program so I can get the appropriate output of that program and use it in my perl code. Preferably, I would like the arguement passed to be a variable I will have earlier declared in the code.

[Transient]

Ahh, so you want to be able to call this program with arguments, then? Have you tried qx//?

[blazar]

Then again open as of the documentation or "more simply" qx//, aka 'backticks', which personally I don't like. Remote chances are that you may be interested in IPC::Open2 or IPC::Open3 as well.

[holli]

It is a simple test program.

Post your code. That will help a lot.

[void_Anthony()]

Here is the program (in C++)

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    cout << argv[1];
    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Just takes the arguement that was specified at run time and spits it back out. I want to be able to call this program from within my Perl code (preferably with arguements that are variables that I have specified in the Perl code as well.)