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Started by Twisol October 23, 2006 11:07 PM

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Twisol

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October 23, 2006 11:07 PM

Is it possible to run another program from within a C++ program? What about a Perl program? Can a Perl program run a C++ program? On cronjobs: Can C++ be used instead of Perl for web server cronjobs?

erissian

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October 23, 2006 11:40 PM

Running a program from C:
system("otherprogram.exe");

Running PERL in C:
system("perl someprogram.pl");

Embedding PERL in C:
http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlembed.html

Running C from PERL:
system("cprogram.exe");

As far as cron, it doesn't care what you want it to do, or why. Just when.

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Twisol

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October 23, 2006 11:45 PM

Thanks a ton. I guess system() just sends the passed string as a command? I'm curious as to how "pause" fits in then, but that's off topic. Rate++!

EDIT: Cool, I can read that same page you linked from the console by using the command "perldoc perlembed". [grin[