To respond to ikegami and Bloodnok at the same time, I guess Ikegami is right, no Expect on Win32 (unless Cygwin). Also IPC::Open3 will not work on Win32 reliably, although on linux it would be the ideal solution. See Perl/Tk App and Interprocess Communication The problem is with select on the READ filehandle. You may be able to use IPC::Open3 if you know for sure what the prompt will be from the exe, and you can just feed it your data with a little time delay in between. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use IPC::Open3;

my ($age, $height, $weight) = (50,72,250); #yeah I'm fat :-)

#my $pid = open3(\*WRITE, \*READ, \*ERROR, 'somecmd.exe');
my $pid = open3(\*WRITE, \*READ,0,'somecmd.exe');
            #if \*ERROR is false, STDERR is sent to STDOUT 

#send query to cmd
print WRITE "$age\n";

#give cmd time to output
select(undef,undef,undef,.5);

print WRITE "$height\n";
select(undef,undef,undef,.5);

print WRITE "$weight\n";
select(undef,undef,undef,.5);

#get the answer from cmd if needed
chomp(my $answer = <READ>);
print "$answer\n";

waitpid($pid, 1);

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In reply to Re: Call external exe by zentara
in thread Call external exe by markww

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