Misha has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello monks,

I need to run IE from the Perl script and pass the port as an argument.
How can I do it?

Many thanks

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Re: run IE from the Perl script
by Errto (Vicar) on Jan 30, 2008 at 20:51 UTC
    See Re: How to start default browser on Windows?. Note that this opens the user's default browser, rather than IE necessarily, but I suspect most of your users would consider that a good thing. system works too, but IIRC it pops up a console window (unless you're already in one), which may be unseemly.
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      Many thanks,
      It what I was looking for.
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Re: run IE from the Perl script
by nikosv (Deacon) on Jan 30, 2008 at 20:47 UTC
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Re: run IE from the Perl script
by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Jan 30, 2008 at 20:37 UTC
    I'm not sure that this is the most efficient way to do it, but this seems to work. 

    use strict;

system (1,'start http://www.msn.com:8080');

    [download]

    I tested it and it opened a new tab for me in Firefox, but that's my default browser, so if IE is your default, it should be fine.

    HTH!

    Revolution. Today, 3 O'Clock. Meet behind the monkey bars.

    I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code

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Re: run IE from the Perl script
by renodino (Curate) on Jan 30, 2008 at 20:58 UTC
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