finding standard appliiations .exe

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

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Re: finding standard appliiations .exe by cdarke (Prior) on Nov 02, 2009 at 17:19 UTC
Try Win32::FetchCommand It searchs HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT for file associations, and gets the path from there.	[reply]
Re^2: finding standard appliiations .exe by merrymonk (Hermit) on Nov 02, 2009 at 17:54 UTC
I will try this as well!	[reply]
Re: finding standard appliiations .exe by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 02, 2009 at 17:17 UTC
For starters, not only are neither standard, one of then never comes with Windows. There's no generic registration mechanism for locating applications. It doesn't make much sense. It presumes there will only be only one installation of one version of an application on the machine. I don't know why you'd want to know that information anyway. If you want to load a document, use the user's preferred application: `system(qq{start "" "$doc"});` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: finding standard appliiations .exe by merrymonk (Hermit) on Nov 02, 2009 at 17:52 UTC
I wanted this so that I can start the applciation. However, your method looks useful. I will try it	[reply]
Re: finding standard appliiations .exe by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Nov 02, 2009 at 20:29 UTC
I've been using SVN::Notify to find executables. Try this: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw(prompt); use File::Spec; use SVN::Notify; my $exe_name = prompt("Enter name of exe: "); my $exe = SVN::Notify->find_exe($exe_name); print "$exe\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]