Rob,
Thank you very much! I got it worked !
Dawn
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From: "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dawn Sun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: newbie question: about perl56 and perl58
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dawn Sun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:34 AM
> Subject: newbie question: about perl56 and perl58
>
>
> I have both perl5.6 and perl5.8 installed on win2k. I want to find a way
to
> have a perl5.6 script(or subroutine) in a perl5.8 program.
> something like:
> >>>>>
> #!c:\perl58\bin\perl.exe
> .....
> test ();
> sub test {
> #!c:\perl56\bin\perl.exe
> ......
> }
>
> >>>>
> Is this possible? Or other solution to have the perl58 script run the
perl56
> script?
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> One solution would be to use backticks:
>
> sub test {
> my $x = `c:\\perl56\\bin\\perl.exe your_script.pl`;
> return $x;
> }
>
> or, for a subroutine:
>
> sub test {
> my $x = `c:\\perl56\\bin\\perl.exe -e "#your_code"`;
> return $x;
> }
>
> If the script/sub doesn't return anything that you're interested in then
you
> could use the system() command:
>
> sub test {
> my $err = system("c:\\perl56\\bin\\perl.exe your_script.pl");
> if($err != 0) {die "The system call failed"}
> }
>
> The shebang line doesn't help determine which perl.exe gets used. On
Windows
> that line is ignored except for any switches it contains (such as '-w').
> When you run 'perl some_script.pl', the perl.exe that runs
'some_script.pl'
> is the first perl.exe that is found in the directories in your path.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
>
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