Hi

I have a perl script from within which I need to call an .exe and pass a param and grab the return value. The problem is that the .exe issues a prompt and from with a shell script I would normally use a here document to pass the parameter

#!/bin/ksh

myexe <<-EOF
param1
EOF

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This produces a reference number. e.g. 07F1E07F0007F0C

I don't have the source for myexe (a C program) but am required to use it's output. However from within the perl script I am not sure how to achieve the same thing. The current relevant perl code looks like this 

my %NameAlreadyProcessed;
for my $i (0 ..$#{$Details}) {
  my $Name = $Details->[$i][0];
  my $contact = $Details->[$i][1];
  next if $NameAlreadyProcessed{$Name};
  $NameAlreadyProcessed{$Name} = 1;

  my $result = qx{ myexe $contact };

  print "$Name $result\n";
}

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This doesn't work . It's producing garbage in $result so I am assuming it's not being passed to myexe properly. Any help on this would be most welcome. I'm not a prolific perl programmer.

In reply to passing params to an exe in a perl script by Anonymous Monk

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