> -----Original Message----- > From: anon ymous [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: integrating C++ apps with perl > > > Hi, > > I've never used perl before, and I have a gut feeling that it > might be > the tool to fit a requirement I have, but I'm not sure. If anyone can > confirm that I'm not barking up the wrong forest, then that'd > be great. > > > I have a C++ application that's mainly on unix, but it's > designed to be > platform dependent. Generally it's generating a large number of data > structures which it will eventually pass to another application. The > data structure consists of strings and numbers, and is nested > so varies > in length. > > At some point while it's handling those structures I want to give the > user an opportunity to transform each data structure into > anything they > like, after which it gets passed back into my application > before final > delivery. Users will probably change the structure into a > text message > like XML, but it could just as easily be entirely binary > (even the XML > messages might have message delimiter characters like 0x01). > This will > allow my system to maintain a compatibility with other > people's systems > without recompilation etc (there's no such thing as > standardisation in > my world yet I'm afraid). > > At it's simplist, my application could dump each structure as a file, > then the perl program reads, transforms, and writes out a new file, > cleaning up the old files, and my app reads in the new file. > But really > I'd like it to be all handled in memory (for speed I guess, > and low disk > grinding). I'd also like to retain the platform independence > nature of > everything. > > > So, can a C++ app pass data to a perl (script?) and then receive data > back? Does the C++ application have to 'embed' a perl object somehow? >
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