Makeshifts last the longest.

Hey, thanks guys for the feedback. I figured there was a way to invoke the standard perl functions. I'll also take a look at those tut's. Regards, Eric

A better link might be: perlopentut.

Also, for a general Perl tutorial, you might want to try Robert's Perl Tutorial. Its a bit dated, and often doesn't use the best style, but its a pretty good tutorial for beginners considering that its free. If you want to spend a few bucks, you might want to try a book like Learning Perl by merlyn.

Try this:

<SCRIPT language="PerlScript">
use Win32::Script qw/WScript/;
$Shell = WScript('Shell');
$Exec = $Shell->Exec('cat a.txt');
$window->document->write($Exec->StdOut->ReadAll);
</SCRIPT>
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It prints the content of a.txt file.

With ASP/Perscript, you mostly only need to know how to use Win32::OLE, Win32::Script or other related Win32 wrapper modules. Otherwise, Microsoft COMs (related to ASP or your work) are what you should learn.

So how is that any better than the following?

<SCRIPT language="PerlScript">
use Win32::Script qw/WScript/;
my $content = do {
    local $/;
    my $fh;
    open $fh, '<', 'a.txt' ? <$fh> : "Couldn't open a.txt: $!;"
};
$window->document->write($content);
</SCRIPT>
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In fact I dare say it's worse - you were spawning an external process to read the file. There's sometimes something to be said for the brevity of qx{cat a.txt}, but you even gave up on that.

Makeshifts last the longest.

Whatever works is fine by me. I don't have any preference.