First off, can I call a perl function from within a javascript function
Why of course you can my good monk! This is perl after all where it's not uncommon to call on the power of quantum superpositions to perform a list operation. To do this will require the download and compilation of the JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey. Within the source package you should find the PerlConnect library which allows you to call both Perl in JavaScript and JavaScript in Perl (hmmm, time to implement Inline::JS methinks). Here's some example JS using PerlConnect 
p = new Perl;
p.use('Time::gmtime');
t = p.eval('Time::gmtime::gmtime');
// returns [49,0,4,24,6,98,5,204,0]

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Unfortunately no browsers will have PerlConnect built into them (well I certainly hope not - security etc) so this won't be of much use to you I'm afraid, but I didn't want the Monastery to go uninformed of this possibility ;-)
HTH

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broquaint

In reply to Re: Calling a perl function from within a javascript function (using PerlConnect) by broquaint
in thread Calling a perl function from within a javascript function by Baz

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