windows - Run external command from within Perl -

i using doxygen generate html documentation , run perl script function names.

to run doxygen configuration need run doxygen file_name in cmd.

but want run perl.

i tried code

my $cmd = "perl -w otherscript.pl";  $result = system( "start $cmd" );

but opens cmd window. need execute cmd code directly through perl (not perl command line through perl ide). there way achieve this?

your usage of system , start ok.

from description in comment, think it's because you're not using correct escaping method when giving configure files doxygen throw such error:

error: configuration file c:sersghoshbcd not found!

try

my $result = `doxygen c:\\users\\aghosh\\abcd`;

in 2 back-slashes, former 1 escape latter 1 it's recognized windows directory separator.

Error