Got a dumb question. If this happens to be on Windows, would it be possible to use system to call the program within the DOS start command (which would open a new DOS command prompt window to run the program and immediately return control back to the Perl script) and then try to use Win32::GuiTest to "interact" with that new command prompt window?

I'm not saying this would be simple or easy or even elegant. Just trying to think of alternate methods of trying to interact with whatever program the OP is trying automate.

If this happens to be a bad idea, I'd like to hear the reason(s) why so that I (and perhaps others) can learn something new.

In reply to Re^4: automatically giving user input to a command line by dasgar
in thread automatically giving user input to a command line by tfredett

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