Re: How to open an editor from your Perl script?

Use system instead of backticks:

ken@ganymede: ~/tmp
$ cat > pm_vi_from_perl.txt
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp
$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -e 'my $f = q{./pm_vi_from_perl.txt}; syste
+m(vi => $f);'
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp
$ cat pm_vi_from_perl.txt
Line 1
Added after system() called
Line 2
Here also: Added after system() called
Line 3
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp
$
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-- Ken

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Re^2: How to open an editor from your Perl script? by dr.jekyllandme (Sexton) on Jul 24, 2012 at 01:31 UTC
Thank you, worked like a charm.	[reply]
Re^3: How to open an editor from your Perl script? by perlsaran (Sexton) on Jul 24, 2012 at 05:27 UTC
The reason behind system command is ..it just spawns a different shell and runs seperately.In system you can get the exit status as 0 --> Success or Any other positive value --> ie error codes. Again..you can play these opening file in editors in Tk.sounds to be little complex.	[reply]