At 5.41 97/2/18, Rudolf Hommer wrote: >I want to call a apple script out of perl: [...] >and I want to use the data out of the script within perl. > >I tried: >print result; >print $result; >print $_; > >and nothing works! Try: #!perl $x = &MacPerl'DoAppleScript(<<'END_SCRIPT'); tell application "FileMaker Pro" get record 1 of layout 0 end tell END_SCRIPT print $x; Good luck, #================================================================ Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com PGP Key 1024/B76E72AD http://pudge.net/ Keyfingerprint = 08 24 09 0B CE 73 CA 10 1F F7 7F 13 81 80 B6 B6