yes i have some perl libaries and no chance to use them via ruby
directly. i postet this problem on monday and someone told me that. 
so i have to communicate with the scrpits. i know that it is not versy
good but i don't want to rewrite all from the perl libary whcih would
take very long cause i didn't write it. 

thanks a lot for your answer. will try it then. ;)
regards
max


Robert Klemme wrote:

> 
> "max" <max / solution-x.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > i would like to call a perl script with ruby.
> > so i write puts erl test.plĄ¨
> 
> these must backquotes like in:
> 
> puts `perl test.pl`
> 
> when you want to write a new perl script, then do it directly in ruby
> instead.  integrating a big perl script that you don't want to rewrite
> seems to me the only case where call integration like this is appropriate.
> what features are there in perl that you miss in ruby?
> 
> > how can i do it that my ruby programm gives the scrpit 1 and the perl
> > script adds one and gives the result back to my ruby script.
> 
> in perl script (from memory):
> 
> print $ARGV[0] + 1, "\n";
> 
> regards
> 
>     robert
>