On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 20:11, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <shawnhco...@magma.ca> wrote:
> 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" );
snip
On OS X it is
system "/usr/bin/open", $file;
I thought Win32 could do something similar with the start command, but
it doesn't seem to work, so you will have to know the right program an
say something like this:
my %prog = (
xls => "excel",
doc => "word",
etc => "etc"
);
system $prog{$file_type}, $file;
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