Hi, I am working on Perl on Windows(command prompt). I have one .exe file "sqlpplus.exe" in my C drive. I need to write a script where I'll first check whether this file is present or not. If yes, then run this file. Here is the code snippet 

#!usr/bin/perl

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$month,$yr19,@rest) =   localtime(time);#####
+##To get the localtime of your system
print "Date:\t$day-".++$month. "-".($yr19+1900)."\n"; ####To print dat
+e format as expected
print "Time:\t".sprintf("%02d",$hour).":".sprintf("%02d",$min).":".spr
+intf("%02d",$sec)."\n";###To print the current time

$SQLPLUS = "C:/sqlplus.exe";

if( -f$SQLPLUS )
{
    print " exe file is present\n";
}
else
{
    die "file is not present\n";
}

The code to run the sqlplus.exe.......shoud be here
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I do not know how to invoke or run this file. Please assist. Thanks Ethen

In reply to How to run a .exe file from a Perl script? by Ethen

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