Re: [MacPerl] Calling a program frame MacPerl

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

trr@frame.com (Tim Ringwood) writes:
In message <9601262207.AA29675@applepie> you write:
>I need to call "X.EXE" from a MacPerl where X.EXE is unknown.
>
>I know I call an AppleScript and to a tell and X.EXE will run, but I have to
>hardcode the path and program name in.

One point that always seems to elude MacPerl users is that the argument to
MacPerl'DoAppleScript is a normal string, and thus can be subject to string
substitution:

MacPerl::DoAppleScript(<<END_SCRIPT);
tell application "$app"
   run like heck
end
END_SCRIPT

Conversely, if you *don't* want string substitution, put single quotes around
the delimiter:

MacPerl::DoAppleScript(<<'END_SCRIPT');
tell application "$app"
   crawl like Word 6
end
END_SCRIPT

Matthias

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