At 22:50 -0600 2002-02-28, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. wrote: >What about: >set perlFileCall to perlFile & " " & myStr >set myDate to do shell script perlFileCall
This works as long as the Perl script is stored in a separate file. When embedding the Perl script inside the AppleScript I could not make it work but in that case all data to be passed can be embedded in the text of the Perl script itself - there is no need for command line arguments. ------------------------------------------------------------- set argument to "This is passed to Perl" set my text item delimiters to return set perlScript to text items of "/usr/bin/perl <<'__END__' my $argument = <<'EOFARGS'; " & argument & " EOFARGS chomp $argument; print qq(Perl was passed: $argument); __END__ " set my text item delimiters to ascii character 10 do shell script (perlScript as text) display dialog result ------------------------------------------------------------- Whith this technique AppleScript droplets can be made that contain Perl code just like MacPerl DropShell droplets do - but which work natively in both Mac OS X and classic Mac OS, using the appropriate Perl. Gero Herrmann Nishinomiya, Japan
