Greetings,

I'm having this problem that's driving me nuts and I'm hoping one of the monks here has dealt with, solved it, and is willing to share.

First, a little background:
I'm on a P4 2.2gHz Windows XP machine (with all the latest patches) with lots of RAM, a very large harddrive using ActivePerl Build 804, trying to code a cross platform package.

My problem is that I have a situation where I need to pass a very long argument string to an external program (a java program actually), which could be well over the 357 charecter limit I have seen mentioned here. When I try to do this, I don't get an error, instead the perl binary crashes on me...

I have tried implementing the code mentioned in http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=151886 and an other node mentioned here (sorry I forgot which one), and both give the same results. A perl crash....

Please help. This has been driving me nuts for the last few days and I don't know what else to do...

In reply to Passing a very long parameter list to an external command in perl by dwhitney

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