Re: [misterhouse-users] running external programs

[Steve S. <st...@sw...>]

Hello,
   I'm not sure what the "correct" way to do this would be, but I can recommend 
redirecting the output to a file... Try somethig like this:

tag.exe filename.mp3 > output.txt

Then, read output.txt from perl, and delete it (optional - it'll be overwritten 
next time).

Hope that helps out...

-- 
Steve Switzer
steve (at) switzerny (dot) org

Quoting ryan scott <ry...@te...>:

> 
> I am trying to use this command line program Tag to read MP3 data, but
> I'm having trouble getting the information back into PERL
> 
> 		
> my
> $taginfo=`C:\\mh\\code\\qtest\\config_files\\modules\\music\\tag\\Tag.ex
> e \"$filetoscan\"`;
> 
> seems to run the program and output it somewhere, don't know where, but
> not into $taginfo.  Seems like STDOUT because it dumps right to the
> screen.
> 
> System and exec don't work, I found docs that said use backticks.  In
> all the perl I'd written on unix, it works, but here it isn't working
> right (windows xp)
> 
> How can I get the output from Tag.exe to go into $taginfo?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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