Re: [MacPerl] Parameter passing A/Script

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 9.41 6/26/97, Cakebread wrote:
>Hello,
>  I am a fairly new MacPerl user, and would like to know if someone can tell
>me:
>
>How can you pass a parameter from MacPerl TO Applescript.  Clearly, I can use
>AS like a function and get a value BACK...but am unsure of the syntax to pass
>a parameter INTO AS.

How are you calling the AppleScript?  The simplest way is if the AS is
contained in your Perl script:

#!perl
$filename = q["text clipping"];
&MacPerl::DoAppleScript(<<EOS);
tell application "Finder"
        activate
        select file $filename
        open selection
end tell
EOS

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