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

If I already have a url stored in a scalar, how can I find an available web browser and open it? For instance: 
my $url='www.perlmonks.org';

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and I don't know which OS the script will be running at.

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Re: platform-independent way to open web page
by jethro (Monsignor) on Sep 18, 2008 at 02:55 UTC
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