[sf-perl] A beginners' Question

David Davis xantus at teknikill.net
Mon May 7 17:49:51 PDT 2007


Did you check the value of $target first?

You can use $^X to get the full path of the perl you are running.
system("$^X somescript.pl");

Although if the script is executable, and has a #! line, then you don't need
it at all.
system("somescript.pl");

Are you using cygwin?

David

On 5/7/07, nheller at silcon.com <nheller at silcon.com> wrote:
>
>
> I read PerlDocs and this is what I tried:
>
> 1.  chdir "c:\\sqlscr";
> 2.  my $target = readlnk("Multi_SQL.pl");
> 3.  system "Perl $target";
>
> I received a fatal error that line 2 (above) contained a call to an
> "Undefined Subroutine".  I couldn't tell from Perl Docs what I should have
> included (require...?).
>
> Can you give me some insight.
>
> Neil Heller
>
>
>
>
>
> > readlink() ?  Then execute the target?
> >
> > perldoc -f readlink
> >
> > don't know if works in waanderz.
> >
> > On 5/7/07, nheller at silcon.com <nheller at silcon.com> wrote:
> >> I'm trying to write a Perl script in Winderz.  At one point in my
> >> script,
> >> I want to launch another Perl script.
> >>
> >> system "Perl secondScript.pl";
> >>
> >> The problem I'm having is that secondScript.pl is a link to the real
> >> secondScript.pl (which is at a location with a very long URN) and Perl
> >> balks at executing the link.
> >>
> >> Does anybody have an idea about how I can get around this?
> >
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