On 3/15/06, Sonika Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> $retval = system("perl sample.pl $filename");
> I would need a while loop to poll the "$?" for the complete execution of the
> system command.
No; system() waits for the command to complete before it continues.
You could use fork-and-wait, but system() seems to do what you want.
> How to get the output .zip file for processing
If the output is being saved to a file, you can open that file with a
module that can read zip archives. Is that the problem you have?
http://search.cpan.org/
http://search.cpan.org/~smpeters/Archive-Zip-1.16/lib/Archive/Zip.pod
Hope this helps!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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