Hi Monks.

I have some code I'm trying to port from *nix to Windows and am stumbling over Windows long names. I've scoured the web and see many references to this, but none have helped.

Here's what I'm trying to do... 

my $progPath = cwd();
my $perlPath = $^X;
my $args = "-c abc.conf -r";

#  then build the command and capture the output...
my $output = `$perlPath $progPath/my.pl $args`;

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Both the perl and program paths are in "Program Files", so it's tripping over the spaces.

I need to capture the output. I've tried backticks, capture(), qx{}. I've tried many permutations of quotes, escaped quotes, q{}, qq{}, etc. with no luck.

I know I could make it work by converting the paths to Windows 8.3 names.

I'm asking:

1) is it wise to just go ahead and use the 8.3 name and be done with it?

2) is there a way to make this work without doing that and is that the wiser route?

Thanks, Rick

In reply to Executing perl program from another perl program and capturing the output by rgren925

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