open program

I am trying to open Internet explorer from within Perl.I have used the following code:



#!/usr/bin/perl;open(MYFILE,"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer.exe");
Any help would be appreciated.
Paul

2008/9/8 Adams Paul <adams787@msn.com>:
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> I am trying to open Internet explorer from within Perl.I have used the following code:
>
>
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> #!/usr/bin/perl;open(MYFILE,"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer.exe");

If you call an external program in Perl, shouldn't use "open".
Instead you could say "system (external_program)" if this is under Unix.

For your purpose, if you just want to open the web pages, you could
have many choices rather than trying to open an IE. see these modules:

WWW::Mechanize
LWP::UserAgent
etc.

2008/9/8 Jeff Pang <Jeffrey@aolchina.com>:
> 2008/9/8 Adams Paul <adams787@msn.com>:
>> #!/usr/bin/perl;open(MYFILE,"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer.exe");
>
> If you call an external program in Perl, shouldn't use "open".

adjust: I mean shouldn't use open directly like this way.
but you could open a pipe for an external command, like:

open HD, "ls -l|" or die $!;
while(<HD>) {
print;
}
close HD;

this is the same as: system("ls -l");