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Get the command-line for a Word document using Win32::FetchCommand, supplying the file name. Then you can feed that into system or Win32::Process::Create.

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by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 31, 2010 at 09:58 UTC

    Does that work if the OPs text file doesn't have an extension that is associated with word?

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      Good point, I had made that assumption. The command can be grabbed programatically using 
      my @Cmd = FetchCommand('.doc');

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      assuming that file association is setup for Microsoft Word and the .doc file extension.
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Re^2: system command
by wwe (Friar) on May 27, 2010 at 12:49 UTC
    Hi, my comment arrives a bit late for the discussion but I found this thread while looking for help about Win32::Process and want to help somebody else who read this later :-).

    If you want to start a process with Win32::Process you need to pass full-qualified executable name, which is usually unknown. In this case Win32::SearchPath is helpful. Find out the path to the executable:

    my $cmd = Win32::SearchPath::SearchPath('ipconfig');

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    The module checks either the path in the same way as Windows does or let you specify directories where to look: 
    my $cmd = Win32::SearchPath::SearchPath('ipconfig', 'C:\Windows');

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    Then you start the process as you want using Win32::Process: 

    Win32::Process::Create( $ProcessObj, $cmd, '/all', 0, IDLE_PRIORITY_CL
+ASS, "." )
                        || die "error running process";

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