How to open a gif file with non-default application

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

Greeting monks

In my perl script, few graphs are plotted using GDGraph module. As soon as the plotting is done, I want to open these graphs with a specific application(not the default one).I have tried using

system(qq(start "$full_filename"));

But it returns the following error

start: Unknown job: Line_uptime_1.gif

Please suggest me the right way

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Re: How to open a gif file with non-default application by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 17, 2010 at 07:27 UTC
`start` will use the default application, so I don't see why you're still using start. `system("c:\specific\application.exe image.gif");` [download] Actual usage may vary by application.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to open a gif file with non-default application by kcott (Archbishop) on Nov 17, 2010 at 07:19 UTC
Determine what works from the commandline and use that. You probably want something like: `start application_name filename` Perhaps you need quoting, switches or similar. As you haven't told us what this non-default application is, it's rather difficult to advise what syntax you should be using. -- Ken	[reply] [d/l]