On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 05:35 -0800, Collaborate wrote:
> I should have stated my question in a more general sense. I can send
> the output to a text or an Excel file. Other file formats that I
> haven't yet explored may be possible. Instead of double clicking with
> the mouse on the created file's name to see what's in the file, I'd
> like the program to simulate the double clicking even. I was wondering
> if Perl can "open" a file, regardless of the file type.

What windowing system?

Linux+GNOME:
  system( "gnome-open $file" );


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  Shawn

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coding.


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