Greetings all, I want to execute perl code from within a java application. For example I pass the following command to my java application:

perl somescript.pl args...

This works fine and I am able to capture the script's output in my java code. However if I use the "-e" command-line option, the perl program is successfully executed but my java program shows that no output is produced. For example:

perl -e "print \"Hello World\""

My guess is that the perl interpreter works differently with the "-e" option than it does when reading and executing a perl script. I would like someone to tell me how to run a perl program using the "-e" option and capture its output in my java code. I am running perl 5.8.6 for MSwin32-x86-multi-thread on Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.00.2195 and Sun Microsystems java version 1.6.0_21

Thanks, Avi.

In reply to Running perl from java by abramia

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