On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Charlie Reiman wrote:
Woof. Wow. I had a look at this perl package and it is impressive. In Yes. It is. :) I definitely use a small subset of its power. But even the simple script I wrote to export some data from a database and build Excel-Output caused much less trouble than CSV. (While I know that XLS is no standard at all I was perfectly able to work with the XLS in Excel *and* Gnumeric - I did not found a CSV-From which fits this criterium yet.)
The good news is it doesn't appear to use any COM stuff or external C packages so it should be pretty easy to port the core data file stuff. It's also good code with clean layout and comments so it's easy to figure out what is going on. Unfortunately, I don't have time and it isn't a priority for my employer right now. So back to the original topic: Is there any example how to use an external Perl script and shipping some parameters to it? I just found the statement that it is possible. I wonder if anybody tried ...
Kind regards Andreas.