in reply to execute perl script in vb.net

You want to launch a perl program from within a VB program, but don't know how to write the VB code to do that?

If that's the case, asking on a Perl forum for how to write VB code isn't likely to get you much expertise.

However, googling for vb execute external program brings up many possibilities the first of which is this

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