Dearest Monks,

I don't understand why the following piece of code does not work the way I expect it (it opens a command prompt window when I expect it to open notepad). My goal is to open a .txt file in its native application which I assume to be notepad. The file is created and closed before I attempt to run this piece of code. 
sub logfile{
        my $file = "$gGui{complogpath}/$gGui{complog}.txt";
        my @args = ("start",$file);
        for (@args) {
                  if (/ /) { $_ = qq{"$_"};
                }
        };
        system(@args) == 0
          or warn "Couldn't launch '$file' : $!/$?/$^E";
}#logfile

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The following code opens Guide in its native application (adobe). In this case I don't worry about the path because I know that that file is in the same folder than the application code. 
sub help{
        my $file = "Guide.pdf";
        my @args = ("start",$file);
        for (@args) {
                  if (/ /) { $_ = qq{"$_"};
                }
        };
        system(@args) == 0
          or warn "Couldn't launch '$file' : $!/$?/$^E";
}#help

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In the first code that does not work, I have to give the full path and I have a feeling that it is the problem. I don't pass all the pieces correctly. (?)

I would appreciate any thoughts you may have.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Claire

In reply to Opening a text file in its native application by FM

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