Open services.msc

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

Sorry in advance as its probably easy, but how can i get perl to open up services.msc in windows? (C:/Windows/System32/services.msc) I have tried the following

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

system ("C:/Windows/System32/services.msc" ) or
    die "Cannot open file: $!";
?>
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but all i get is an error telling me search pattern not terminated at services9.pl line 7 Again apologies if this is really simply i'm still trying to learn my way around

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Re: Open services.msc by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 26, 2011 at 19:59 UTC
`search pattern not terminated at services9.pl line 7` [download] So, have you looked at line 7?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Open services.msc by Evilbert (Initiate) on Jul 26, 2011 at 20:07 UTC
Looked but didn't understand why as i'm still learning, i did apologise in advance	[reply]
Re^3: Open services.msc by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 26, 2011 at 20:18 UTC
Line 7 in your posted code looks like `?>` [download] ... and that just doesn't make sense to Perl. It sees a question mark, and thinks that you want to do a pattern match, see perlop on `m?PATTERN?` resp. `?PATTERN?`, but then it's missing the "closing" question mark.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Open services.msc by Evilbert (Initiate) on Jul 26, 2011 at 19:59 UTC
Turns out just need to use exec, sorry if i wasted anyone's time	[reply]