[Chicago-talk] concurrent processes?

[Richard Reina]

I have a program that opens a terminal so that the user can enter some info.  Like this:


system(q{gnome-terminal --geometry=80x12+0-30 -x perl -e 'require "./data_entry1.pl"; my $co=get_input();'});

# do something with $co

The code works in that it opens a small terminal at the bottom of the screen where the user can enter info.  However, the program continues to execute without waiting for the value of $co. Is there a way to make the program wait until the terminal session has been terminated so that the value of $co can be obtained?

Been banging my head on this one since 6:30am so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Richard



---- Chicago.pm chatter <chicago-talk at pm.org> wrote:
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> On Mar 8, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Richard Reina wrote:
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> > system("gnome-terminal -x perl -e 'print "Hello World\n"; sleep 4;'");
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> You have double quotes inside of that string.  You need to do either:
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> system("gnome-terminal -x perl -e 'print \"Hello World\n\"; sleep 4;'");
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> or
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> system(q{gnome-terminal -x perl -e 'print "Hello World\n"; sleep 4;'});
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