Please visit http://www.activestate.com . They have PerlApp and PerlCOM
tools as part of the Perl Development Kit.
With PerlApp you can generate free running EXEs and with PerlCOM you can
create DLLs which can be invoked by any VB/VBScript/JScript code.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Carmody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:21 PM
Subject: A little off topic.
> Having crafted my masterpiece in perl, I now need to get it to run from
> within a VB script.
>
> (VB takes office file, converts to .csv, which perl scripts then parses,
> but poor secretary has to have excel doco to work on....)
> So this is only in the interest of allowing perl to actually be used at my
> work in a real environment (as opposed to only me using when I need it)
> and being seen as a REAL tool, even though it's free/open source/not
microsoft
>
> So how do i get visual basic to call external executable files ?
> Such as perlscript.bat containing "perl myscript.pl"
>
> Any help doubly appreciated...
>
> Michael Carmody
> MDU, Public Health Lab
> Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
> The University of Melbourne, Parkville
>
>
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