in reply to Call external exe

You probably want to consider moving up to a gui, like Tk, to get input and feed it to your program, or you could use Expect. Read "perldoc Expect", it does what you want.
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Re^2: Call external exe
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 13, 2008 at 17:01 UTC

    or you could use Expect. Read "perldoc Expect", it does what you want.

    I thought Expect didn't work on Windows (except possible in Cygwin)?

    You probably want to consider moving up to a gui, like Tk, to get input and feed it to your program

    Nowhere does he say he needs input form the user. In fact, it sounds like he wants to save the user from having to input constant data.

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