Hello fellow monks!
I need to call a rather old program through a perl script that I have written.
The problem is that this program is interactive and "asks" the user some questions.
Is there a way that perl can help me answer this questions by passing the answers as arguments when I call the program in the command line?
The questions are:
1. enter file name  (you must specify the file name and press Enter)
2. do you want to specify another file name (Y/N) (you must enter N in
+ most cases and press Enter)
3.enter name for output file (you must specify a name for the output f
+ile, eg ttt and press Enter)

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I really don't have a clue as what to do, I tried (unsuccessfully) to write something like:
run_prog (name of the program) myfile.txt N myfile.txt.out

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Apparently it can't take these arguments as I tried.
Any thoughts?

In reply to "Answer" questions in an interactive program? by Anonymous Monk

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