Manipulating .EXE files

[aetinti]

I'm Trying to write a program that will automatically open a .exe file enter a piece of text in a specific textbok and then exectute itself. I'm new to perl and can't seem to find any of the answers in my books or online. I'm running Perl through the windows command prompt. Can someone please point me the the right direction?

[KevinADC]

maybe the expect module is what you need:

http://search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect-1.20/Expect.pod

but you need to use Cygwin. See the above link.

[aetinti]

Thanks I'll give it a shot

[Mushy-pea]

You might be able to do this using the IPC tools built into Perl. This page describes how to open a child process and connect pipes to it's standard input and output: http://perldoc.perl.org/IPC/Open2.html

You can find more in depth information on interprocess communication in Perl here: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html

Steven.

[aetinti]

Thanks .. I"ll be sure to try both and let you know what works :)