Is it sensible to move the contents of the batch file into Perl? You can use the Perl variable %ENV to manipulate the environment that will be seen by a program run using backticks.
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The perl program is capable of setting environment variables - eg:
$ENV{FOO} = 'foo';
but, for your script to be able to do that, you need to know in advance the names of these env vars, and the values they need to take on.
If that's not the case, then things get a bit more complicated.
I would probably open the batch file for reading and parse its contents for the settings that need to be made:
use strict;
use warnings;
open RD, '<', 'foo.bat' or die $!;
while(<RD>) {
if($_ =~ /set\s/i) {
my @v = split /=/, $_;
my $n = (split /\s/, $v[0])[-1];
$ENV{$n} = $v[1];
print "\$ENV{$n} : $ENV{$n}\n";
}
}
my @progname_output = `progname l`;
The regexes might need some adapting, depending upon what the contents of the batch file can be.
Cheers,
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