in reply to run file

If you are under Windows, there is the simple minded way of simply "starting" the file through the associated program :

  my $htmlfile = "c:\\test.html";
  system(qq{start "$htmlfile"});

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If you are not on Windows, or want to keep up some semblance of portability, there is my module HTML::Display, which tries to make displaying HTML in a browser somewhat less platform dependent, but it is not yet distributed stand-alone.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web

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Re: Re: run file
by Anonymous2003 (Initiate) on Aug 18, 2003 at 11:07 UTC
    I am under solaris and i use perl version 5004.04!I want to run the html file! thank you!
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      One doesn't "run html files". HTML files contain data; HTML is not a programming language. If you mean you want to display an HTML file from within your Perl program, the following ought to work: 
          system netscape => "file:///home/you/path/to/file.html";

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      assuming that netscape is in your PATH.

      Or, if netscape is already running, you do something like: 

          system netscape => 'remote', 'openURL(file:///home/you/path/to/fil
+e.html,new_window)';

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      Abigail

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