Re: Run an external program and capture its output

On 17.4.2014 13:49, John Emmas wrote:
> On 17/04/2014 11:34, [email protected] wrote:
>> .
>>> This is one that comes up from time to time - it's not specific to 
>>> Strawberry Perl, and has to do with file associations and something 
>>> else .... a registry setting ? ... I can never remember the details, 
>>> nor of how to search for it.
>>
>> Aaah ... here's the solution I was thinking of:
>> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1024609
>>
>
> Wow, I'm amazed!  I've been programming on Windows for nearly 30 years, 
> yet I never encountered this problem before.  Nevertheless you're 
> absolutely right Rob.  Placing the word "perl" at the start of my command 
> line solved the problem!  Sadly, the fix suggested by that article didn't 
> work in my case - but no matter, at least I've got a solution now.
>
> One more question - is there a way to obtain the Windows version 
> information using a perl script?  For example, can I obtain the value of 
> WINVER somehow?

Check
https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32#Win32::GetOSDisplayName
and
https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32#Win32::GetOSVersion

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