SPUG: want to call Perl functions from VB

[Showell30 at aol.com]

Hello.  I wonder if anyone has experience making VB and Perl interoperate.  
Here is what I need to do:

       1. User starts up VB program which contains a tree-view widget.
       2. VB program starts up Perl program that parses an HTML document with 
HTML::TreeBuilder.
       3. Perl program then goes into some sort of event loop.
       4. When the user moves around in VB's tree-view widget, VB calls into 
Perl code to get the HTML for that part of the document.  The interface would 
be relatively simple; it could be string in, string out, four or five 
function calls.

My best solution right now would be to do this with sockets, but I am 
interested in alternatives.   

(I know I could do the client in Perl/TK, but I'm interested in learning 
about the interoperability of the two languages.)

Thanks,

Steve

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