Well, it returns null because when you try to escape in that string, that's
perls escape that your using, not XP's excape.
A way around this might be (i dunno, never tried this before):
system("cd C:/Program Files/GNU/Octave/2.1.50/");
$result= `bin -q my_script.m`;
If that doesn't work then setup windows to have files with .m on the end be
run by 'C:\Program Files\GNU\Octave\2.1.50\bin'.
Here is how:
Goto 'My Computer'
Click 'Tools'
Click 'Folder options'
A dialog shoudl come up, click the 'File types' tab.
When the list of registered file extensions finishes loading, click 'New'
Type 'm' in the box then hit 'enter'
The new file extension should be at the top of the list selected, if it
isn't, just select it.
Click 'advanced'
a dialog shoudl open.
in the first box type 'Octave script'
click 'new'
type 'open' in the first box of the new dialog
in the second dialog, type (yes type the double-quotes, but not thhe signle
ones) ' "C:\Program Files\GNU\Octave\2.1.50\bin -q" %1 '
click 'ok'
click 'ok' again
click 'ok' again again!
Done.
Pinchy
Charlie
PS: Reckon this is pretty good for a 9 year old?
"P Libardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi! I've written a perl cgi script to create a web page. Now what I'd like
to do is to execute an Octave script from the Perl one and get its output
inside my perl script. I'm working on a Windows XP machine.
I tried $result = `C:/Program\ Files/GNU\ Octave\ 2.1.50/bin -q
my_script.m`;
but $result is still null. The octave script runs correctly if I use it
in the Gnu Octave shell.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Paolo
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