[sf-perl] What language is most like perl?

Garth Webb garth.webb at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 22:23:47 PDT 2012


How is IPC::Run safer than system?  Also he doesn't need
to communicate with the script; he just need to run Ruby code, which he is
not familiar with, from Perl, which he is familiar with.  IPC::Run seems
like overkill for this.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Kevin Frost <biztos at me.com> wrote:

> Try IPC::Run - that system() below is pretty dangerous if you don't
> strictly control the vars.
>
> my $var2 = '; /bin/rm -rf .';
>
>
> -- frosty
>
> On Aug 16, 2012, at 16:04, Garth Webb <garth.webb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Try:
>
>   system("script.rb $var1 $var2");
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 16, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Richard Reina <gatorreina at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies. The ruby script as it's written works ok, but I
> have a perl script that would need to run before it, breaking up multiple
> page pdf, and after it doing regex on the converted text file. Does anyone
> know how (if possible) to execute a ruby script from a perl script and pass
> it scalar variables?
>
> 2012/8/16 Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com>
>
>> JavaScript (really) and Ruby, without a doubt. The danger with Ruby is
>> you might not want to go back to Perl ;) (except on the command line where
>> perl is unassailable)
>>
>> Another option might be Python - it's *sort of* like Perl insofar as
>> being a scripting language with hashes etc but its learning curve is way
>> less which might be a net win if you're in a hurry and just doing this as a
>> one-off.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Written on my phone
>> On Aug 15, 2012 10:54 PM, "Richard Reina" <gatorreina at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have a program that uses tesseract to try to classify documents on our
>>> LAN. Tesseract comes up way short so I am looking into Abbyy.  The problem
>>> I have is that abbyy supplies sample code in everything but perl
>>> http://ocrsdk.com/documentation/code-samples/ .  Perl is the only
>>> language I know, but I don't know it well enogh to re-write the sample
>>> code.  Is it time for me to learn a new language? If so does anyone have
>>> any recommendations? WHich is most like perl?
>>>
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