Re: perl scripting in AppleScript
Re: perl scripting in AppleScript
- Subject: Re: perl scripting in AppleScript
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:09:03 -0800
At 10:49p -0600 12/22/2003, John Fowler didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
Another strategy with some appeal would be to preposition a perl
program, a filter if I understand the perlese correctly, and invoke
it as needed with a do shell script call.
You could certainly do that. In fact, I recently did exactly that for
a client (whom I met on the other [MacScrpt] mailing list).
My ultimate goal is to build my applescript program in a generic
fashion so it could be ported
I guess you mean distributed?
- I even daydream of it becoming shareware - and I guess a perl
script can be in the package. I'm working on these ideas as I go
along.
Sure. What I did was have the perl script -- which I thought of as
the "engine" -- be in ~/bin/ so that the AS script could easily find
it, and the AS script -- with all the "management" code -- could thus
be anywhere. That way I could leverage the best features of each
scripting system, and easily test the engine via the command line.
-boo
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