Hi folks,

I have the following problem: I want to convert a directory PDF->TXT using a third party .exe and using system in Perl.

sub open_directory_file_pdf
{

    my $Directory = File::Spec->canonpath( $mw->chooseDirectory() );
    my $shortpath = Win32::GetShortPathName( "$Directory" );
    chdir($shortpath) or die "$!";
    
    opendir (DIR, "$shortpath") or die "$!";
    my @files = grep {/.*?\.pdf/}  readdir DIR;

    foreach my $file (@files) {
        system ("files/pdftotext.exe -nopgbrk -q \"$file\"" );
    }
close DIR;
}

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I get an error related to "system" -> "file" wrong written or not a command. What I am doing wrong?

PS: if I write 

        system ("$file" );        
        system ("pdftotext.exe $file");

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it works fine for opening $file with the standard pdf viewer but same error when it comes to accessing the .exe.....pdftotext.exe works on command line

In reply to System path by welle

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