in reply to Re^2: How to open an editor from your Perl script?
in thread How to open an editor from your Perl script?

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.

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