Re^3: subprocess delay on Windows with Perl/Tk


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Re^3: subprocess delay on Windows with Perl/Tk

by pfaut (Priest)

on Jun 03, 2004 at 19:15 UTC ( [id://360376]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Win32::Process works, but I'd have to know the full path to excel.exe.

That's not hard to find.

use File::Spec;

sub find_in_path {
    my $prog = shift;
    my $fmm;
    for my $d (File::Spec->path()) {
        $fnm = File::Spec->catfile($d,$prog);
        last if -x fnm;
        $fnm = undef;
    }
    return $fnm;
}

my $excel = find_in_path('excel.exe');
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Re^4: subprocess delay on Windows with Perl/Tk
by kgoess (Beadle) on Jun 03, 2004 at 20:05 UTC

Thanks, but that's assuming excel.exe is in your path. It's typically not, rather it's typically in some place like c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\. That's the case with most Windows packages that you'd install.

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Re^5: subprocess delay on Windows with Perl/Tk

by pfaut (Priest) on Jun 03, 2004 at 22:25 UTC

I'm confused. You complain you can't use one method because it requires a full path. Then you say it may not be in your path. How do you invoke it then? Either you need to know where it is and provide the full path or it needs to be in your path. Am I missing something?

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