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Thanks Andreas. You may be right about running a perl script under
windows. I have the installation but haven't used it yet. It's a long
time since I've done any real programming.

In the meantime, I think I've found another way that would work more
seamlessly -- BeanShell can access the file system. I haven't used it
before, but I know Java.

Where would be the best place to ask questions about using BeanShell in LO?

Thanks again!


On 5/17/12, Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de> wrote:
Am 17.05.2012 21:01, Kelly Holman wrote:
Sorry, I didn't mean to be unclear. There are several ways I could get
the result of the perl script: an array of strings, a single string I
would parse, or writing it to a file as you suggest. That part doesn't
matter.

All I need to know is whether I can call the perl script from within
LO, using LO basic. My understanding of UNO is that it's a way for
other programs to control LO, but I need the other way around. Is
there more to UNO than I realize?

If running a perl script isn't possible, there are perl modules that
can write to a Calc file, so I could go that route. But it would be
simpler to just use that one little perl script and then do the rest
in LO.

Thanks for your help!



I don't know much about Perl. But I remember that calling a Perl script
under Windows is a horrible mess. If I remember correctly, you need to
write some shell script because Windows can not identify the correct
interpreter.

Anyhow, on my Linux system the following Basic macro ...

Sub Main
x = shell("~/bin/number2words.pl",0,"123")
End Sub

... executes number2words.pl in no visible window and with argument 123.
The output "one hundred twenty three" is dumped to the shell from where
I started the office. Variable x is zero in case of no error.



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