Why aren't my backtick calls working on Win32?

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

I'm running perl on NT and can't get the output of my other programs thru the use of backticks.
Example:

test1.pl --------

#! c:\perl\bin\perl

print "Hello World!";
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test2.pl
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#! c:\perl\bin\perl.exe

$output1 = `test1.pl`;
print "Option 1: ".$output1."\n";

open(STDOUT, ">output"); # from perlfaq8
system("test1.pl");
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Results:
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Z:\test> test2.pl
Option 1:

Z:\test> type output

Z:\test>
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Re: Why aren't my backtick calls working on Win32? by bsb (Priest) on May 24, 2004 at 08:00 UTC
I had to add the -S switch to find the script file: `perl -S script.pl` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Why aren't my backtick calls working on Win32? by btrott (Parson) on Apr 05, 2000 at 00:28 UTC
Try changing your backticks to: $output1 = `perl test1.pl`; [download] I tried it, and it fixed the problem for me.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Why aren't my backtick calls working on Win32? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 05, 2000 at 02:00 UTC
I had the same problem, and fixed it by prepending "perl " to the filename. My guess is that you don't have an association set up for the .PL file extension and the Perl executable.	[reply]